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From: "Almon C. Turner" <n4okg@mobis.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install.  Hangs up during device probe
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>Number:         31320
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install.  Hangs up during device probe
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 16 18:10:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 1 15:25:13 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 01 15:26:14 PST 2001
>Originator:     Almon C. Turner
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
ASUS A7M266 mother board, AMD Athlon 1.4 processor, 512MB 266 DDR RAM,
ATI XPERT 128 (Rage 128)AGP video card, SB16 PCI sound card, Adaptec 2930U SCSI card, WD 200BB HDD pri/master, WD 8.4/66 pri/slave, Creative
CD-ROM drive sec/master, Iomega Zip 250 sec/slave.
>Description:
Attempts to install halted when the device probe point was reached.  I allowed quite a lot of time to no avail.  Up to that point everything goes as it should.  I tried to install my older 4.2 release with the same result. I've been running 4.2 on my older (PIII/500) machine for several months, so I hesitate to blame this on "operator malfunction"!
>How-To-Repeat:
Simply attempt to install FreeBSD on this machine and the problem raises it's ugly head!
>Fix:
I suspect, but can't prove, that FreeBSD is having problems with the DDR SDRAM, or some feature of the motherboard. My previous machine also had an ASUS motherboard that is quite similar except for the processor, DDR SDRAM, and on-board UDMA100 feature.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: n4okg@mobis.com (Al Turner)
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <n4okg@mobis.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/31320: FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install.  Hangs up during device probe
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 18:53:49 -0500

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From: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <n4okg@mobis.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/31320: FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install. Hangs up
 during device probe 
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:11:00 -0800 (PST)

 Exactly where does the device probe hang?
 
 You should also be sure to resolve any device conflicts you may have using
 the kernel configuration option (the first question asked when
 installing).
 
 Faulty cabling or hardware could also be to blame, have you used any other
 operating systems on this machine successfully?
 
 - chern
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: chern 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 1 15:25:13 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator solved his own problem. 

CD-ROM w/ DMA on in BIOS largely to blame for this issue. 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31320 
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