I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.1 over the internet. As I don't have a fixed IP address, I started the installation using DHCP. But the installation does not proceed after that. There is a message "Scanning for DHCP servers" and installion is stalled there. It is NOT that there are no DHCP servers available. When I boot my system in win95, I do get the IP address and other information. (I managed to install using a fixed IP address; Also there are no incompatibility issue between the server and the client as the system is currently up with an IP address from the DHCP server) How-To-Repeat: Start the installation of 4.1 through FTP method using DHCP.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback I'm pretty sure that you need to give us more info here. Could you send dmesg(8) output for the affected system so that the maintainer can see what network card you were using and can confirm that the network card was actually probed properly?
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->obrien Over to the maintainer.
Hi, The network was indeed probed without any problems. I found something strange yesterday. After I changed /etc/rc.conf to use DHCP & rebooted it the first time, the system came up fine. When I rebooted it yesterday evening (after I filed the PR), the system did not come up (after displaying something related to 'hostname' while booting). I left it and today morning, I found that the system is up. Regards, Muthu dmesg output: ------------ Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jul 27 04:44:16 GMT 2000 root@usw4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (398.27-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di le0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di ed0 config> di cs0 config> q avail memory = 126398464 (123436K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc040d000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc040d09c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <ATI Mach64-GB graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 9 xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2000-0x207f mem 0x41100000-0x4110007f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:87:44:3f miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 20.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x20a0-0x20af at device 20.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at device 20.2 on pci0 uhci0: Invalid irq 255 uhci0: Please switch on USB support and switch PNP-OS to 'No' in BIOS device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6 chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 20.3 on pci0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 ad0: 6149MB <FUJITSU MPD3064AT> [13328/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <LTN323> at ata1-master using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > Synopsis: Installation (over internet) does not work with DHCP; stops at "Scanning for DHCP servers" > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: sheldonh > State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 10 03:18:37 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > I'm pretty sure that you need to give us more info here. > Could you send dmesg(8) output for the affected system so that > the maintainer can see what network card you were using and > can confirm that the network card was actually probed properly? > > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->obrien > Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh > Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 10 03:18:37 PDT 2000 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to the maintainer. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20513 >
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed It sounds like a sysinstall problem, not dhclient one. Since 4.1 isn't the current release, I'm closing this unless someone sees the same problem with 4.2 {beta,RC,release}.