Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:01:37 -0800 From: "Thor Anderson" <thor_anderson@hotmail.com> To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, thundergod@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install Message-ID: <Law9-F61408Oh1pMuBe00006223@hotmail.com>
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> > FreeBSD hangs without errors early in the install process on my >computer. > > What makes this system unusual is that it > > is "legacy free" which means it has none of the traditional I/O ports >(no > > serial, parallel, PS/2 or even floppy interface). All I/O is via one of > > the five USB ports on the case. > >A friend of mine recently ran into this problem on an embeded system. >The solution for him on 5.x was to enter the following at the loader >prompt to disable the keyboard and floppy probes because they tend to >hang: > >hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 >hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 >hint.fdc.0.disabled=1 > >Unfortnaly, you can't do that since you don't have a serial port. The >one hack I can think of would be to try to PXE boot the CD image from >another machine. You could then modify the loader.conf on the pxe image >to force these settings. > >These drivers are broken and need to be fixed since I'm sure this >problem will only become more common. Thanks Brooks. I'll be trying to find a "normal" computer to install FreeBSD. Hopefully with it, I can try to implement some of the suggestions being offered - including a PXE boot. I found the LOADER.CNF file on the CD. If I were to burn the CD to a CDRW, could I edit that file manually and then boot from the CD? Thor _________________________________________________________________ Cell phone ‘switch’ rules are taking effect — find out more here. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/consumeradvocate.armx
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