5-stable kernel hang during boot

[Paul Keusemann]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:00:09PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On 09 Nov Paul Keusemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:27:33PM -0600, Billy Newsom wrote:
> > > See my posts and others on these topics:
> > >  critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4)
> > >  5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)
> > >  [PATCH] option to re-enable aggressive ATA probing
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointers.  I have not been able to figure out how to get
> > the mail list archive search to give me anything useful yet.
> > 
> > So far, neither the patch to /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-lowlevel.c or
> > reverting to the 5.3-Release acpi.ko has solved my problem.  It
> > appears I have the same problem as Julian Dunn.  The hang is occurring
> > in the same place anyway.
> > 
> > Has anyone who has had a problem with 5-Stable tried 6.0?
> 
> My 5-stable hangs. I use an ata drive (master0) and a dvd drive as
> master1. Booting hangs probing the dvd-drive *ONLY* when it's empty.
> When I put a CD in it (no matter what) the boot process just runs
> smoothly (both ad0 and acd0 are seen ;-)
> 

I haven't tried booting with a CD in the drive.  I don't have anything on
ata0 and I've only got a CD-ROM drive on ata1.

> With 6.0R this no longer happens. The empty dvd-drive does not hang the
> boot process any longer. What a relief ;-)
> 

That's what I was hoping.  I guess that's as good a reason as any to move
to 6.0.  I'm going to try RELENG_5_4 too, just to see if it works.

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