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From: Kovacs Janos <kovacs.janos@ofi.hu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: sysinstall hangs up detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...)
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>Number:         40260
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): hang when detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 06 02:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 14 15:48:59 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Kovacs Janos
>Release:        4.6-RELEASE
>Organization:
EDUCATIO Kht
>Environment:
FreeBSD chaos.rulez.org 4.6-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jun 28 16:45:23 CEST 2002     root@kaamos.felvi.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHAOS  i386

>Description:
       When sysinstall try to detect your devices upon starting up, the
detection could hang up if:
  - the kernel contains one of the network interface driver tried to
        loaded at startup time
  - on device detection hangs

So you can get a warning messsage when you select CD/DVD media, that
No CD/DVD devices detected in your machine... 

we don't know wheater only this case can fool deviceGetAll() from
devices.c or a buggy hardver too.
>How-To-Repeat:
       compile and build an install CD from /usr/src/release/sysinstall,
and compile and build a kernel with one of the drivers sysinstall load
at startup. Try it to install.

When sysinstall starts, you will get an error message, that if_* could
not loaded up. After the Detecting devices, please wait... message try
to set the media to CDROM, and you should get the error...
>Fix:
      For the network interfaces is simple: don't compile it into the
kernel, but if bogus hardware present the hangup, try to remove it or
disable it from bios while installing.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: kris 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jul 18 15:48:52 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to qa group 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40260 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: qa->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: jhb 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 2 18:46:04 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Canonicalize responsible. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40260 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 13 13:48:53 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40260 

From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,
 kovacs.janos@ofi.hu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/40260: sysinstall(8): hang when detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:32:42 -0700

 Is this still a problem in 8.x?
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 17 20:37:39 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Note that feedback was requested. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40260 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 14 15:48:57 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
yes it is (I've confirmed) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40260 
>Unformatted:
