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From: bob prohaska <bob@imlpld1.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: device.hints are not honored in 5.2.1-RC	
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>Number:         62565
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       device.hints are not honored in 5.2.1-RC
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 08 22:20:14 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 03 22:42:23 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 03 22:42:23 GMT 2006
>Originator:     bob prohaska
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC
>Organization:
University of California, Berkeley	
>Environment:
486 cpu, 1542b, ne2000, 20 megs RAM


>Description:
The target host is a 486-33 with Adaptec 1542b scsi adapter,
ne2000 ethernet adapter and generic 1440 floppy drive. All worked 
well enough to install FreeBSD 5.1 with the gymnastics described here:
http://imlpld1.berkeley.edu/~bob/FreeBSD/ 

On booting the 5.2.1-RC floppies (fdformatted first, all md5 sums
are correct) written on the boot drive the usual prompts are
presented and the loader prompt invites device.hints: those
are 

set hint.aha.0.disabled=0
set hint.ed.0.disabled=0
set hint.ed.0.port=0x300
set hint.ed.0.irq=5

The changes are reflected (and unaffected by double quotes)
in the "show" command, but a "boot" command does not probe 
aha0 nor ed0, ending with the:
 
mountroot>

prompt which accepts
ufs:md0a
as a reply.

/stand/sysintall 
starts up, with a flock of errors related to failed module loads and
an invitation to use the driver floppy.

The sysinstall Main Menu comes up, but with no disks nor ethernet
adapters found it's a fruitless venture.



>How-To-Repeat:
Try to reinstall again.

>Fix:
None at this time.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:35:39 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Jikes, it seems that we are facing older hardware. Can you 
tell me whether this device.hints problem persists in more 
recent FreeBSD hardware? 

Thanks! 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:35:39 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Grab the PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62565 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 3 22:42:01 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The submitters email address is no longer reachable, 
close the PR accordingly. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62565 
>Unformatted:
