misc/87822: Unable to install 5.3, 5.4

[cantclif at engineering.uiowa.edu]

The following reply was made to PR i386/87822; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: cantclif at engineering.uiowa.edu
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/87822: Unable to install 5.3, 5.4
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:27:49 -0500

 I apologize for the lack of details, for some reason I remember give more info
 than I did.
 
 Main board asus p2b-ds, 2x800 p3, 512 megs misc mixed ram, with single 18 gig
 scsi drive attached
 3c905 10/100 nic, promise fasttrack sx4000 and an older nvdia based 
 card on the
 agp slot.
 
 The system will no install.  It starts booting of the cd then within a 
 second it
 simply reboots, no time to read errors messages, etc.  Tried 5.3, 5.4 releases
 and 6.0 rc1 all do same thing at the same point.
 
 I've narrowed the problem to something with the sx4000 with some trial 
 and error
 .  If I pull the card I can install Freebsd with no issues, if I put the card
 back in freebsd won't boot. I end up with an error message and it reboots.  I
 do not have the error message on hand and won't be able to get it at 
 this point
 because we ended up deploying it as a win2k Active directory server on our
 network.
 
 
 Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>:
 
 > On 2005-10-22 00:04, Chris <cantclif at engineering.uiowa.edu> wrote:
 >> >Number:         87822
 >> >Category:       misc
 >> >Synopsis:       Unable to install 5.3, 5.4
 >> [...]
 >> >Release:        issue with 5.3, 5.4
 >
 >> >Environment:
 >> Unable to install, so cannot perform uname -a
 >
 >> >Description:
 >> System Will not boot into install from freebsd 5.3 and 5.4 disc.
 >> System reboots almost as soon as freebsd attempts to load the install/
 >
 > It's not easy to guess what the exact problem is without more
 > information about the hardware of the system.  Can you please
 > post any details you have about the hardware in a followup to
 > this post?
 >
 > Make sure you keep the <freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org> address
 > in the list of Cc: addresses and the subject starts with
 > ``Re: misc/87822: ''.  This way the followup will be added to the
 > "audit trail" of this PR and anyone who works on it will be able
 > to look at the history of the bug report more easily ;-)
 >
 > Regards,
 > Giorgos
 >
 >