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From: mshine@mindspring.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Cannot Install FreeBSD 2.2.1 - installation hangs when copying bin to root directory
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>Number:         3374
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Cannot Install FreeBSD 2.2.1 - installation hangs when copying bin to root directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 22 20:20:02 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Thu Sep 18 23:19:26 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Thu Sep 18 23:19:40 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Michael Shine
>Release:        2.2.1
>Organization:
Consultant
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
I cannot install from FreeBSD 2.2.1 April 1997 CD. The installation hangs
when copying bin to the root directory. It gets at most 25% of the way
before it hangs. Here is the configuration:

SuperMicro P5STE Motherboard with Intel Pentium 200
Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller	                 ID 7
Quantum Fireball TM 3.2 SCSI-3 with SCSI         ID 0
Toshiba XM-3801B/F1 SCSI-2 CDROM                 ID 5


device	IRQ	Port
fd0	6	3f0	(floppy disk drive controller)
IDE	14	1f0	(IDE controller)
IDE	10	168	(IDE controller)
lpt0	7	378	(printer port)
se0	4	3f8	(mouse)
se1	3	2f8	(modem-USR Sportster Voice 33.6 PnP FAX Internal)
kb	1	60	(keyboard)

I am attempting to install to SCSI Quantum Fireball.

Other items:
Quantum BF25A011 2.5G
Seagate Medalist 1.2G
Soundblaster AWE-32 PnP

I set the secondary IDE controller to the proper IRQ and port. I remove all 
devices that do not apply to my system. When I select minimal install,
the installation proceeds until it gets to the point where it copies
bin to /

I have formatted and verified the disk several times.
I have set all kinds of options on the Adaptec controller


>How-To-Repeat:
I have repeated this problems many different ways. I have tried all 
kinds of options on the Adaptec controller. I have reformatted the
disk and verified it several times.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: mshine@mindspring.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3374: Cannot Install FreeBSD 2.2.1 - installation hangs when copying bin to root directory 
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:56:31 -0700

 Hmmm.  Are you absolutely sure of your SCSI termination and cabling?
 This really seems like some sort of medium error; either that or the
 CD is somehow defective.  Any debugging output in the 2nd screen at
 the point that it hangs?  Can you enable debugging in the Options
 screen and run it again?  Perhaps the debugging output will be helpful
 in at least pinpointing the failure.

From: Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@tmr.si>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/3374: Cannot Install FreeBSD 2.2.1 - installation hangs when copying bin to root directory
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:33:42 +0200

 I was just trying to install FreeBSD on a Pentium with 32MB RAM,
 an Adaptec 2940UW, a 3COM 3C905 (10/100) and a Quantum Fireball
 3.2 SCSI disk and a IDE disk on the IDE controller. The system
 installed just fine (I installed from the Internet instead of CD).
 
 After the system was installed I tried installing additional
 packages and after some time the system simply hung solidly.
 When reseting it with the reset button the Adaptec BIOS did
 not recognize the Quantum. I had to turn off the machine and
 after that the disk was again recognized.
 
 There seems to be a pattern here and appears to me there is a
 problem with the combination Fireball/2940UW. I have Ultra SCSI
 in 2940UW setup turned off (also tried with it turned on),
 wide negotiation turned on and off for the Fireball. I tried both
 with a 2.2.1 kernel (I know it has bugs in the 2940 driver) and
 also a 2.2.2 kernel with absolutely no change.
 
 I also tried booting the Fixit floppy and the dumping/restoring
 through a FIFO pipe through rmt from a remote machine.
 
 It always solidly hung the machine while trying to restore the /usr
 partition (which is 1.7GB) but it completed successfuly all the other
 partitions (which are smaller).
 
 >Hmmm.  Are you absolutely sure of your SCSI termination and cabling?
 
 I am 99.99999% sure that it is.
 
 >This really seems like some sort of medium error; either that or the
 >CD is somehow defective.  Any debugging output in the 2nd screen at
 >the point that it hangs?  Can you enable debugging in the Options
 
 Absolutely no output for me. It simply hangs and does not accept
 and keyboard input after that.
 
 >screen and run it again?  Perhaps the debugging output will be helpful
 >in at least pinpointing the failure.
 
 Will try that. Also if you need the exact revision of the Fireball
 I can provide that. I searched ftp.quantum.com for a firmware upgrade
 (like for the Atlas) but did not find anything.
 
 --
 Blaz Zupan, blaz@amis.net, http://www.amis.net/staff/blaz
 Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 18 23:19:26 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  

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