Re: mfii hanging on boot

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	hello.  Given that the system was running fine under 9.2 and you haven't updated anything
immediately before it began hanging, I'm inclined to think you have a hardware issue.  Some
questions:

1.  Does the raid card have any battery backed up cache on it?  If so, what is the state of the
battery?

2.  What  happens if you pull the battery and try to boot the system?

3.  Have you chedked the BIOs of the machine?  Perhaps its motherboard battery is going dead
and the BIOS settings are corrupt and need to be reset?

4.  Is it possible to temporarily disconnect the drives attached to the raid card to see if it
boots without the attached disks?

5.  Does the behavior persist if you move the raid card to a different PCI slot?

-thanks
-Brian