Bug 29096

Summary: freebsd 4.2/4.3 hangs after probing devices, on the setup screen, keyboard apears frozen
Product: Base System Reporter: BassDrop <bassdrop>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description BassDrop 2001-07-20 05:10:01 UTC 
downloaded the .iso image, burnt. Tryed installing from floopy, and booting from cd.
on both occasions after detecting my devices the installation froze on the screen right after it has probed the devices. I have tried altering power management, udating bios etc. Also tried different graphics card, takeing sound cards and scsi cards out.

System: ATX, PII350, Supermicro P6SBA motherboard, 192megs PC100 ram, 3dfx voodoo3 2000, creative soundblaster 128, sonic vortex 2, advansys 2930C scsi card, win95 keyboard, logitech mouseman+.

How-To-Repeat: try installing it on this machine :/
Comment 1 Almon C. Turner 2001-12-10 15:04:52 UTC 
I had a similar problem on any function requiring the use of the device probe (Everything from initial install to running /stand/sysinstall).  I solved the problem by enabling the "Plug & Play" option in the BIOS.
Comment 2 hiten pandya 2002-01-02 16:12:59 UTC 
hi,
did you check if the floppies you wrote to, were clean and properly
formatted,
because sometimes if the floppies are messed, then the neccessary stuff
on
it can get mocked up..

just one of the things to look out for...

regards,
 - Hiten
 - <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>

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Comment 3 hiten pandya 2002-01-02 16:14:34 UTC 
This PR can be closed as the problem was most certainly related to the
media
being faulty (the darned floppies..), or the BIOS settings...

regards, 
 - Hiten
 - <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>

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Comment 4 dwmalone freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-02 21:40:24 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Could you try setting "PNP OS" in the BIOS and see if that helps? 
These problems can be tricky to track down, but the hardware you 
have seems standard enough and there is no obvious reason why you 
should be having a problem.
Comment 5 Almon C. Turner 2002-03-03 00:51:02 UTC 
My problem was similar and was cured by selecting "PNP OS" in the bios -HOWEVER - once the installation was complete, and I was finished playing with "/stand/sysinstall configPackages",  I had to reset the bios to "PNP OS = NO" so that my sound card would be activated after recompiling the kernel.

Al Turner
Comment 6 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-06-19 20:53:33 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.