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From: LLazarte@mat.unb.br
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Subject: Installation freezes after device selection, while "probing".
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>Number:         10690
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Installation freezes after device selection, while "probing".
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 20 02:50:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jun 3 21:30:48 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jun  5 07:40:02 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Leonardo Lazarte
>Release:        3.1 STABLE
>Organization:
Universidade de Brasilia
>Environment:
Not applicble, the problem arises before completing installation
>Description:
After booting kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, selecting and configuring
devices, the system freezes while on the "blue screen", with the
message "probing ... this can take a while". It takes forever.

Several people have reported the same problem in the lists. In my
case, if I deselect the network card (which was working under 3.0),
the booting goes on. Some people reported a workaround by changing
address of the card, or configuring "eisa 12" in CLI mode. That
didn't work in my case.
>How-To-Repeat:
The problem happens ALWAYS in my Aptiva 166 with NE2000 compatible
card.

On release 3.0 I could go out of the "probing" state by typing
CONTROL-C and continuing with installation. This did not work
with 2.2.8 neither with 3.1.

>Fix:
Sorry, no idea.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@granch.ru>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/10690: Installation freezes after device selection, while 
 "probing".
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:12:05 +0600

 LLazarte@mat.unb.br wrote:
 
 > After booting kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, selecting and configuring
 > devices, the system freezes while on the "blue screen", with the
 > message "probing ... this can take a while". It takes forever.
 > 
 
 Also. I see it when I install FreeBSD on some old computer (DX2-66,16M
 RAM, 540 HDD Maxtor, VESA Cirrus Logic Videocard). I probed 2.2.5, 2.2.6
 and 2.2.7 versions and all it freezed at this place. Install was
 happened only when I change HDD to 1Gb Western Digital. Network card was
 some old NE2000-compatible card with jumpers.
 
 -- 
      With Best Regards.
      Rashid N. Achilov (RNA1-RIPE), Granch Ltd. lead engineer
      e-mail: achilov@granch.ru, tel (383-2) 24-2363
 

From: "Michael A. Meiszl" <mam@werries.de>
To: "'freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>,
	"'llzarte@mat.unb.br'" <llzarte@mat.unb.br>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/10690: Installation freezes after device selection, whil
	e "probing"
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:27:31 +0200

 This error just occured to me too.
 Yesterday I've bought an new machine with an Intel RX-440 Motherboard
 (onboard a 16Mb Riva-TNT AGP adapter and a Soundblaster 64V PCI card) with a
 P-II/400.
 
 It hang at the "probing" screen too. This confused me a bit, because I'm
 already running a machine with this motherboard (but a slightly older
 revision with an 8Mb Riva 128 adapter) with no problems.
 
 I've tried the suggested "eisa 12" trick, and disabling all non-used
 drivers. I've also dismounted the network adapter (3C905B), nothing helped.
 
 Then (more luck than serious debugging approach) I've decided to try Disk 2
 the life file system (btw: this is 3.1-release) and hit the eject button on
 the cd-drive. Guess what happens? The cd was not spit out, but the frozen
 "probing" screen went away and the installation menue appeared!
 
 This is reproducable, once hung, wait a few seconds then hit the button.
 Installation continues!
 
 Seems that the atapi driver locks up.
 
 This drive is a no-name 40x called LTN382/RM03 (whatever that means).
 
 I can install afterwards, but later on I run into troubles with the disk
 drive (12,9Gb WD IDE). But this is another problem...
 
 MAM
 
 
 
 

From: Tim <saboteur@bigfoot.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, LLazarte@mat.unb.br
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/10690: Installation freezes after device selection, while 
 "probing".
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:48:44 +1000

 This also happens on my AMD386 box. Even when I disable the NIC card.
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: dougb 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 27 15:37:13 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Is this still a problem with newer releases of FreeBSD? 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10690 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: dougb 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 3 21:30:48 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Feedback timeout, and high likelihood of being fixed in more 
recent versions. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10690 

From: "G.W.Roberts" <g.w.roberts@bangor.ac.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, LLazarte@mat.unb.br,
	freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, "Lazaro D. Salem" <salem@statoil.com>,
	n_hibma@freebsd.org, dougb@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/10690: Installation freezes after device selection, while 
 "probing".
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:35:48 +0100

 This bug, or similar, is still not fixed - see PRs 18201, 26686, 26736.
 
 --
 Dr G W Roberts                             Dr G W Roberts
 Adran Mathemateg                           Department of Mathematics
 Ysgol Gwybodeg                             School of Informatics
 Prifysgol Cymru                            University of Wales
 Stryd y Deon                               Dean Street
 Bangor                                     Bangor
 Gwynedd                                    Gwynedd
 LL57 1UT                                   LL57 1UT
 DU                                         UK
 
 Email: G.W.Roberts@bangor.ac.uk
 Tel:   +44 (0)1248 382480
 Ffacs: +44 (0)1248 361429
 WWW: http://www.informatics.bangor.ac.uk
 
 
 
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