When I try to boot, I get to:
and then nothing, no matter how long I wait. I would expect to see
this next:
In January I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. For 2 months, I was able
to shutdown and reboot many times as I gradually got it just the way I
want it,
16 Mar 2010 I switched over to using it as my main machine. Over the
next 2 weeks I did a heap of installs, mainly with pkg_add; but I also
did a couple of makes.
Today I decided to reboot to ensure that it still can - and it can't!
I've tried all the choices on the loader (?) menu including safe mode
and single user, all with the same result.
I've booted off 8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs and mounted the root slice (?)
and edited fstab back to the original. I've performed an fsck on all
the relevant slices without problems.
Because it is hanging during the boot process, I cannot find logs that
might help me.
I'm tempted to work on rc.conf next, but I suspect that the problem
occurs earlier in the boot sequence. How do I confirm that? When it
hangs, I can do almost nothing with the keyboard. The best I have
achieved is to turn of the Num Lock light. There is no response to
Ctrl-Alt-Delete; I have to press Reset to reboot.
Can someone point me in a direction that will allow me to move forward
please.
I have stacks of other information, but I don't know what's relevant.
TIA.
Code:
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 pnpid PNP0303 on isa0
and then nothing, no matter how long I wait. I would expect to see
this next:
Code:
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
In January I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. For 2 months, I was able
to shutdown and reboot many times as I gradually got it just the way I
want it,
16 Mar 2010 I switched over to using it as my main machine. Over the
next 2 weeks I did a heap of installs, mainly with pkg_add; but I also
did a couple of makes.
Today I decided to reboot to ensure that it still can - and it can't!
I've tried all the choices on the loader (?) menu including safe mode
and single user, all with the same result.
I've booted off 8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs and mounted the root slice (?)
and edited fstab back to the original. I've performed an fsck on all
the relevant slices without problems.
Because it is hanging during the boot process, I cannot find logs that
might help me.
I'm tempted to work on rc.conf next, but I suspect that the problem
occurs earlier in the boot sequence. How do I confirm that? When it
hangs, I can do almost nothing with the keyboard. The best I have
achieved is to turn of the Num Lock light. There is no response to
Ctrl-Alt-Delete; I have to press Reset to reboot.
Can someone point me in a direction that will allow me to move forward
please.
I have stacks of other information, but I don't know what's relevant.
TIA.