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From: "Almon C. Turner" <n4okg@mobis.com>
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Subject: i386/31320: FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install.  Hangs up during device probe
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>Number:         31320
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBsd 4.4 (or 4.2) will not install.  Hangs up during device probe
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 16 18:10:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Almon C. Turner
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
ASUS A7M266 mother board, AMD Athlon 1.4 processor, 512MB 266 DDR RAM,
ATI XPERT 128 (Rage 128)AGP video card, SB16 PCI sound card, Adaptec 2930U SCSI card, WD 200BB HDD pri/master, WD 8.4/66 pri/slave, Creative
CD-ROM drive sec/master, Iomega Zip 250 sec/slave.
>Description:
Attempts to install halted when the device probe point was reached.  I allowed quite a lot of time to no avail.  Up to that point everything goes as it should.  I tried to install my older 4.2 release with the same result. I've been running 4.2 on my older (PIII/500) machine for several months, so I hesitate to blame this on "operator malfunction"!
>How-To-Repeat:
Simply attempt to install FreeBSD on this machine and the problem raises it's ugly head!
>Fix:
I suspect, but can't prove, that FreeBSD is having problems with the DDR SDRAM, or some feature of the motherboard. My previous machine also had an ASUS motherboard that is quite similar except for the processor, DDR SDRAM, and on-board UDMA100 feature.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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