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Subject: 2.1 Installation problems
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>Number:         1436
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Probe of serial ports during boot hangs system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 27 07:30:03 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jul 27 19:22:28 MET DST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jul 27 19:23:00 MET DST 1996
>Originator:     Stuart Arnold
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM distribution
>Organization:
Association of Stuart Arnolds
>Environment:

133MHz Pentium Intel Endeavour board
ATI Mach 64, Graphics Pro Turbo graphics card (PCI)

>Description:

When booting boot.flp (or atapi.flp) the boot reaches the point at which
the serial ports are probed, then the screen goes blank and the system
hangs.  The same happens if I run install from DOS.
The serial ports are configured the standard way.

>How-To-Repeat:

Boot the system from the boot floppy.

>Fix:
	
If I boot /kernel -c and disable sio0-3 the boot progresses to the
installation program.  I can then proceed further, but of course have
no serial ports.
(Since the CD-ROM drive (Stingray 8X IDE) is not supported and DOS
screws the dist files up if I copy them to a DOS partition I can't
install anyway, but that's the next problem).
I tried a Slackware Linux boot floppy, and that booted OK.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 27 19:22:28 MET DST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
RTFAQ.  Or upgrade to 2.1.5. 

>Unformatted:
 
