Stuck in bootstrapping hell - how do I troubleshoot?

[bob at a1poweruser.com]

Turn off power management in PC bios and try again.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alex
Zbyslaw
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:16 AM
To: Chris Zumbrunn
Cc: questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Stuck in bootstrapping hell - how do I troubleshoot?


Chris Zumbrunn wrote:

> Yes, I'm just waiting until someone has to go by there anyway in
the
> next days. No big deal, but it's not urgent enough to justify the
trip
> just for that. In the meantime, it is annoying to know that
ultimately
> I just have this problem because I'm doing something wrong!
...where
> am I screwing up the setup?  :-)

The only other thing to occur to me was that the machine might
actually
be booting, but getting stuck somewhere maybe probing devices.  I'm
no
expert on the bootup procedure, but I would doubt that
/var/log/messages
was being updated during device probes.  The stuff is probably
buffered
somewhere and then written.  One final thing I might try in your
position is to copy a GENERIC kernel to the disk and see what
happens
when you reboot.  Or even try a very pared down kernel with nothing
but
disks, ethernet card and whatever else is mandatory.  I guess also
compare the stuff in /boot with the machine that works.

--Alex

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