Very Computer

by **Darren Welso** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:22:50

I am running a P4 2.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM ASUS MB (P4SDX) and am trying to
install 4.5-RELEASE and 5.0-RELEASE. In both cases, I boot from the CD-ROM
and probe hardware everything is fine. Suddenly, while the kernel is
booting and finding hardward, the install restarts (I assume the chipset)
the 'devices' and the system hangs. This happens on both release versions I
have. The fact that it happens in both versions indicates it is not a 4.5
or 5.0 thing, but a hardward issue. Does anyone have any idea what I can do
to check this out and circumvent the boot hang? This MB has a new SiS
chipset which made me queesy when I bought it because it was so new, so I do
not expect to find it on a HCL yet.

by **Lowell Gilber** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:58:13

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd).
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
[followups redirected accordingly]

> I am running a P4 2.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM ASUS MB (P4SDX) and am trying to
> install 4.5-RELEASE and 5.0-RELEASE. In both cases, I boot from the CD-ROM
> and probe hardware everything is fine. Suddenly, while the kernel is
> booting and finding hardward, the install restarts (I assume the chipset)
> the 'devices' and the system hangs. This happens on both release versions I
> have. The fact that it happens in both versions indicates it is not a 4.5
> or 5.0 thing, but a hardward issue. Does anyone have any idea what I can do
> to check this out and circumvent the boot hang? This MB has a new SiS
> chipset which made me queesy when I bought it because it was so new, so I do
> not expect to find it on a HCL yet.

You don't mention exactly what point it hangs (that could give a hint
of the source of the problem), but you should probably try the kernel
configuration to avoid driving hardware you don't have -- or at least,
don't need for installation.

by **Mark Hitting** » Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:19:27

> Does anyone have any idea what I can do
>to check this out and circumvent the boot hang?

Darren try a -v at the boot prompt

boot: -v

That will do a verbose boot and show you what devices are being probed.
The usual case is that some pci device is being mis-identified and confused
with another type of device. "dmesg" after the system comes up will allow
you to make a copy of this output to a disk file.

If you can identify the device which is mistakenly probed you can use the
boot -c dialog to disable the devices you don't have. Often disabling the
mis-probed device will cause the true device to be successfully probed
later. Usually its the ethernet card getting mis-probed.

If this works please post your -v output and what you discover to the
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc group. Tell us what kind of motherboard it
is and the specific type of devices you have. The core team may be able
to add some corrections to the 4.8+ and 5.0 branches.

Later

Mark Hittinger

Very Computer

4.5 and 5.0 RELEASE hang at boot of kernel

4.5 and 5.0 RELEASE hang at boot of kernel

4.5 and 5.0 RELEASE hang at boot of kernel

4.5 and 5.0 RELEASE hang at boot of kernel