Hi Steven, Thanks for the reply! On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:56:36 +0100 Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > So the very last thing shown on-screen would be "Loading kernel of > FreeBSD ...", and is that still visible when the system hangs? I should have been a bit more descriptive here, sorry. GRUB outputs "Loading kernel of FreeBSD...", then I'm returned to the screen that says "Welcome to GRUB!", but there is no text output from kFreeBSD. "Welcome to GRUB!" remains visible. > How are you testing this? Some kind of VM? If so, which? I'm testing inside a KVM guest (using QEMU 0.12.1.2) with emulated IDE disk (haven't migrated onto virtio yet). I also have access to a bare metal kFreeBSD host that I can test on, if you think that would help. I've just thought to check what the VM is doing when this behaviour happens, and top indicates it is using up 100% CPU time after the hang, so it seems likely to be some kind of busyloop. I'm actually just about to head to bed, but I can try and gather more information using strace tomorrow. > Which compiler did you build with? Still using gcc-4.6? Using gcc-4.6, yes.
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