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From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) <jin@iss-p1.lbl.gov>
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Subject: boot manager bug
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>Number:         11790
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       boot manager bug
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 19 15:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 26 06:55:28 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 26 06:56:11 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Jin Guojun (FTG staff)
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	Software:	FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE
	Hardware:	ASUS P5A, ASUS P2B familar, FIC 503+, etc.
			CPU K6, K6-III, P-III, Celetron, etc.
			IDE 540MB to 8GB hard drives
			floppy drives too

>Description:

	At FreeBSD boot prompt, the boot process can hang at two places:
	(1) at boot prompt
		F1 ...
		F2 FreeBSD
		F3 ...
		it chooses the FreeBSD only, but nothing else.

	(2) at boot processing

	Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt
	Booting [kernel] ......

		Hanging !!!!!!!!!

	Once the booting hangs, the system cannot be soft reset. A hardware
	reset must be performed.

	The hanging happens at installation time when using a floppy drive. 
	It also hangs on booting from hard drives. The hanging has no certain
	pattern. Normally, it happens when hitting the [Enter] too quick and
	too many times; sometime, it happens without any key stroking.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Observe booting on above Hardwares, as well as
	other hardware combinations.

>Fix:
	
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To: j_guojun@lbl.gov
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/11790: boot manager bug
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 01:40:15 +0900

 To be honest, I suspect something in your hardware. I have never
 seen such complains, and the fickle nature of the problem points
 very, very strongly to hardware problems.
 
 --
 Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
 dcs@newsguy.com
 dcs@freebsd.org
 
 	"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 26 04:33:58 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still a problem in later releases? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11790 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 26 06:55:28 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator confirms that this does not manifest itself in later 
releases. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11790 
>Unformatted:
