Bug 64183

Summary: 5.1-RELEASE Install hung at "Probing devices" display
Product: Base System Reporter: Sarah Close <sarahclose>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Sarah Close 2004-03-12 23:10:00 UTC 
The installation process hangs at the "Probing devices..." display. Configuration: Dell 650N workstation with dual Intel Xeon processors 3.06ghz each 533mhz bus. 2gb ecc ddr sdram @ 266mhz. Seagate ST373453LW scsi drive (73gb), cd-rw drive (ide), Iomega 250 (ide), analog 20" flat panel monitor with on-board controller. Dell bios version A01. LSI bios version LSIMPTBIOS-IS-5.02.32. Usb keyboard & mouse.

Verbose logging on install, rolling quickly off the screen, seems to indicate un-retryable errors probing the scsi drive, on-board scsi controller or LSI bios immediately prior to displaying the "Probing devices.." screen. The message display seems to identify all other components that I am aware are in the workstation. Machine hangs so hard the power plug must be removed to reset it. Machine works wonderfully with Redhat Linux 9. Thought I would see how well it works with FreeBSD before moving to Fedora. If it works as advertised I may not go to Fedora.

How-To-Repeat:       Try the install again.
Comment 1 thor16sc 2004-03-22 04:07:18 UTC 
The current 5.2.1 code probed successfully but XFree could not be 
configured even though it was the identical version that worked fine 
with Fedora Linux. Fedora works and I need to move forward with work so 
I'm putting BSD aside for now.  This item may be closed. Perhaps I will 
try again someday.

Sarah
Comment 2 Matteo Riondato freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-08-26 13:16:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Closed as per submitter request