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From: "g.b." <g.bonacci@libero.it>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or install cd n.1
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>Number:         134407
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [hang] freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or install cd n.1
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          feedback
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 10 06:20:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 12 20:10:01 UTC 2009
>Originator:     g.b.
>Release:        7.x
>Organization:
>Environment:
not applicable
>Description:
I was never able to boot any FreeBSD 7.x release on my asus l3000d laptop.
The system freezes shortly after boot, with no diagnostic message,
sometimes just before user-space keyboard selection, sometimes while
navigating the menu.  Booting with ACPI disabled or in "safe mode"
doesn't help.

The core is an AMD athlon xp-m 2500+ on a SiS 740 chipset.  If the full
hw specification is needed, please provide instructions to get it in a
6.x environment.  FreeBSD up to 6.x always worked fine on this laptop.

Regards -- g.b.

>How-To-Repeat:
boot from the livefs or 1st install cd.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Mon May 11 20:01:09 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter: firstly, is this with the i386 or amd64 CD?  Which 
versions of 7.x have you tried? (7.0? 7.1? 7.2?)  Can you also 
try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if 
that makes a difference? 

Lastly, what do you mean by "user-space keyboard selection"? 



Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon May 11 20:01:09 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134407 

From: giuseppe bonacci <g.bonacci@libero.it>
To: gavin@FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/134407: freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or install cd
 n.1
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 07:22:21 +0200

 gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > To submitter: firstly, is this with the i386 or amd64 CD?  Which
 > versions of 7.x have you tried? (7.0? 7.1? 7.2?)  Can you also
 > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at
 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if
 > that makes a difference?
 > 
 > Lastly, what do you mean by "user-space keyboard selection"?
 > 
 > 
 
 1. my laptop is 32-bit.  I'm trying i386 exclusively;
 
 2. I tried 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2;
 
 3. I'll try 8.0 snapshot as soon as possible;
 
 4. "user-space keyboard selection" means the menu for keyboard selection that is
 shown after the kernel finishes hw inizialization/detection, mounts the CD and
 executes init (sysinstall?) in user-space.
 
 best regards -- giuseppe

From: giuseppe bonacci <g.bonacci@libero.it>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/134407: [hang] freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or
	install cd n.1
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:36:01 +0200

 gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > To submitter: firstly, is this with the i386 or amd64 CD?  Which
 > versions of 7.x have you tried? (7.0? 7.1? 7.2?)  Can you also
 > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at
 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if
 > that makes a difference?
 > 
 > Lastly, what do you mean by "user-space keyboard selection"?
 > 
 > 
 
 1. my laptop is 32-bit.  I'm trying i386 exclusively;
 
 2. I tried 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2;
 
 3. I'll try 8.0 snapshot as soon as possible;
 
 4. "user-space keyboard selection" means the menu for keyboard selection that is
 shown after the kernel finishes hw inizialization/detection, mounts the CD and
 executes init (sysinstall?) in user-space.
 
 best regards -- giuseppe

From: giuseppe bonacci <g.bonacci@libero.it>
To: gavin@FreeBSD.org
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/134407: freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or install cd
 n.1
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:53:08 +0200

 gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > [...] Can you also
 > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at
 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if
 > that makes a difference?
 > 
 
 I've tried 8.0 snapshot bootonly:
 in "normal mode", the system freezes just after printing the line "starting
 sysinstall as init";
 in "safe mode", it lasts a little longer: I'm able to start a shell on vt4, run
 a few commands (such as "find /stand"), and then the system freezes.
 really weird...
 regards -- gb

From: giuseppe bonacci <g.bonacci@libero.it>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/134407: freebsd 7.x freezes with the livefs or install cd
	n.1
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:12 +0200

 gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > [...] Can you also
 > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at
 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if
 > that makes a difference?
 > 
 
 I've tried 8.0 snapshot bootonly:
 in "normal mode", the system freezes just after printing the line "starting
 sysinstall as init";
 in "safe mode", it lasts a little longer: I'm able to start a shell on vt4, run
 a few commands (such as "find /stand"), and then the system freezes.
 really weird...
 regards -- gb
>Unformatted:
