From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 16:40:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03D316A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D11043D45 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0A0eGFR079180 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0A0eGR0079179; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:40:16 -0800 (PST) Resent-Message-Id: <200401100040.i0A0eGR0079179@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Heikki Soerum Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE6216A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [216.136.204.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9624C43D2F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0A0USdL082976 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0A0USKL082975; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200401100030.i0A0USKL082975@www.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:30:28 -0800 (PST) From: Heikki Soerum To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-2.0 Subject: misc/61152: installer refuses to mount USB-floppy or USB-cdrom units. X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:40:26 -0000 >Number: 61152 >Category: misc >Synopsis: installer refuses to mount USB-floppy or USB-cdrom units. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 09 16:40:16 PST 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Heikki Soerum >Release: 5.2-RC2 >Organization: >Environment: N/A >Description: The installer for 5.2-RC2 candidate assumes that all Floppy or CDROM units are connected to /dev/fd* or /dev/ad0*. When attempting to install the OS or executing fixit emergency shell the installer refuses to recognise USB-storage units as valid CD/DVD media or floppy drives with fixit floppies. When tested on an computer with an standard /dev/fd0 unit the fixit disc was mountable&readable, and then it was possible to mount and read USB-CD/DVD and USB-floppy discs manually in the fixit-shell. >How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 from an USB-CDROM/floppy. >Fix: In the installer: When using the Emergency shell selector in the installer, add two aditional options to; 1. emergency fixit shell can be mounted&loaded from an userspecified devicename. 2.LiveCD's can be mounted from an userspecified devicename. Inn addition, the installers choice of install medium need to include an possibility to choose manually the devicename for CD/DVD medium. (Simple hack?) Or the device search routine used to detect what devicename the CD/DVD rom is connected to should include /dev/da0 devices.(More elegant, but probably more complicated.) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: