Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 02:08:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kovacs Janos <kovacs.janos@ofi.hu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/40260: sysinstall hangs up detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...) Message-ID: <200207060908.g6698CiU004742@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 40260
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: sysinstall hangs up detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 06 02:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kovacs Janos
>Release: 4.6-RELEASE
>Organization:
EDUCATIO Kht
>Environment:
FreeBSD chaos.rulez.org 4.6-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jun 28 16:45:23 CEST 2002 root@kaamos.felvi.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHAOS i386
>Description:
When sysinstall try to detect your devices upon starting up, the
detection could hang up if:
- the kernel contains one of the network interface driver tried to
loaded at startup time
- on device detection hangs
So you can get a warning messsage when you select CD/DVD media, that
No CD/DVD devices detected in your machine...
we don't know wheater only this case can fool deviceGetAll() from devices.c or a buggy hardver too.
>How-To-Repeat:
compile and build an install CD from /usr/src/release/sysinstall, and compile and build a kernel with one of the drivers sysinstall load at startup. Try it to install.
When sysinstall starts, you will get an error message, that if_* could not loaded up. After the Detecting devices, please wait... message try to set the media to CDROM, and you should get the error...
>Fix:
For the network interfaces is simple: don't compile it into the kernel, but if bogus hardware present the hangup, try to remove it or disable it from bios while installing.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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