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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:23:28 -0800
From:      "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: misc/2321: installation panic before going to past-install menu
Message-ID:  <199612300323.TAA06753@george.lbl.gov>

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} > The following reply was made to PR misc/2321; it has been noted by GNATS.
} > 
} > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
} > To: jin@iss-p1.lbl.gov
} > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, erich@freebsd.org
} > Subject: Re: misc/2321: installation panic before going to past-install menu 
} > Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:54:25 -0800
} > 
} >  >    ASUS P/I-P55TVP4/200MHz + 3Com 3C509B ethernet card + NCR SCSI
} >  >    with -c option "irq ep0 15"
} >  > 
} >  > >Description:
} >  > 
} >  >    -----------------Information Dialog-----------------
} >  >     Saving any boot -c changes to new kernel ... panic: Going nowhere with
} >  out my init!
} >  
} >  Ouch!  Looks like it's dying somewhere in the code which copies
} >  userconfig changes from the boot kernel to the installed kernel.
} >  
} >  This may prove "interesting" to debug (I'll try your exact set of -c
} >  changes for now) so I may end up just adding an option for turning
} >  this behavior off (on by default) if I can't fix it.  Needless to say,
} >  this doesn't happen on any of my test machines (I have to tweak ed0 on
} >  most of my test boxes, in fac) and may be difficult to reproduce.
} >  
} >  Also strange that no one else has reported this!  Hmmmm.
} 
}         i ran into this problem this morning.
}         tried to install a couple different distributions
}         (binaries and kernel sources, X-developer, minimal)
} 
}         the machine is a dell 486-50, smc ultra (8216?), adaptec
}         1542CP (plug-n-pray disabled)
} 
}         used -cv at boot to remove all devices that are not needed.
}         moved ed0 to irq 3, i/o 0x300, mem 0xd4000
}         (removed sio1--due to interrupt confict, same with mse0)
} 
}         this problem is new to 2.2-beta
}         i can do further testing tomorrow.
} 
}         while getting the distribution splits, the install would
}         return to the menu for selecting an ftp site. bizarre.
}         i was using wcarchive.cdrom.com.  hitting <enter>, results
}         in a dialog about "reuse network settings?".  hitting <enter>
}         again, results in the install continuing.
} 
}         my old memory seems to associate the problme with the doc
}         distribution....but i couldn't say for sure.
} jmb

I believe that this problem may do nothing with ed or ep interface.
It seems to relate to the that motherboard.

I had many different machines with same hardware environment except the
motherboards.  The same environment with Tyan P6 MB, Inter PT-2000,
Inter endeavor-II are successfully installed with 2.2-BATE.
I also have four different ASUS motherboards, I will try the other ASUS 
motherboards soon to see if the problem is related to ASUS motherboards.

-Jin




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