Bug 18205

Include a more detailed description of the hardware being used in this
system, such as motherboard, CPU, CD-ROM drive, etc., then the problem
itself can be pinpointed to a certain item (or function in the kernel).

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 plexus@snafu.de wrote:

> 
> >Number:         18205
> >Category:       misc
> >Synopsis:       Install via CD-Romm hangs
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 25 01:30:01 PDT 2000
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Oliver Fischer
> >Release:        4.0-RELEASE
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD ten4ward.leveld.de 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE
> >Description:
> If I boot via CD-ROM, on sone machines with a Intel PIII sysinstall 
> hangs while probing the devices. I could interupt sysinstall with 
> <ctrl>-c normaly, but it doesn't finish its tests.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Very easy: Reboot and booting via CD-ROM.
> >Fix:
> A fix is to disable the first level cache int the bios of the machine 
> for the installation.
> 
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
> 
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Hi,

> Include a more detailed description of the hardware being used
in
> this
> system, such as motherboard, CPU, CD-ROM drive, etc., then the
> problem
> itself can be pinpointed to a certain item (or function in the
> kernel).

I found this problem on two computers

1. PC
	Processor:	Intel PIII 550MHz/256KB Cache
	Motherboard:	AOpen AX6BC
	Memory:		128 MB

2. PC
	Processor:	Intel PIII 500MHz/156KB Cache
	Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-6BXC
	Memory:		256 MB

If I boot from the CD-ROM sysinstall starts and hangs while
probing
the devices. The last message on the debug screen was like "Found
a network device lp0".

I could reproduce this problem with the following CD-ROMs:

FreeBSD 4.0 Snapshot June 1999
FreeBSD 3.3 Release with 4 CD-ROMs bought via SuSE Germany
FreeBSD 4.0 Release

The Problem didn't occurs with a recorded 4.0 ISO-Image from
ftp.freebsd.org.

Since I changed the processor on PC 2 to a Intel PIII
550MHz/256KB Cache the problem also didn't occurs.

Bye,

Oliver





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Comment 3 Søren Schmidt 2001-05-30 09:21:16 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I'm sure 4.3 fixes this problem.