FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

[Richard Tector]

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> I have a dell 1950 here on the floor.  Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot
> of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that
> down a bit.
>
> It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the
> bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises.  I've
> upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1.  It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1
> configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs).
>
> If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think.
>
> If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy
> (there is no floppy) with the following message:
>
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: does not respond
> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
>
> If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place
> (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before
> the floppy)
>
> If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at
> the same place.
>
> I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R.  Both do the same thing.
>   
Can you try with 7.0 (should be available on ftp-archive)?

I have a 1950 from Sept '07 that's now running 7.2-STABLE i386 with the 
fd devices removed. It started out as 7.0-RELEASE, so maybe its a 
problem introduced since then?

Also, you didn't mention if you were running i386 or amd64.

Richard