Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On 7/26/2013 12:00 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Upon trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL585G5 installation freezes when it comes to the point Archive Extraction while extracting ports. To be specific, the system freezes while extracting ports.txz at 23% with Overal Progress being 29%. You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html): portsnap fetch portsnap extract First I thought about the installation medium, so I re-burned the installation CD (disc1), tried the DVD-installation, even installing over the network - the machine always freezes when it comes to archive extraction. For the hardware part: HP Proliant DL585G5 128GB RAM 8 HDs a 146GB: two of them in Raid-1, the remainder Raid0 2x onboard LAN: (HP NC371i) 2 addon NIC-cards with 2 ports each (HP NC360T) Harddisk has been set up with GPT, for the test automatic partitioning. Has anybody out there seen this type of problem? If yes, any known cure/hint/??? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html): portsnap fetch portsnap extract Hi, Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box behaves weird to say the last: I started out be entering portsnap fetch. Everything runs fine up to the point when I see Verifying snapshot integrity. Then the system completely comes to a grind. After sending the portsnap fetch to the background (^Z) and entering top the machine completely freezes without any indication as to why. I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. Any ideas on how to track this one down? Thanks much in advance, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html ): portsnap fetch portsnap extract Hi, Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box behaves weird to say the last: I started out be entering portsnap fetch. Everything runs fine up to the point when I see Verifying snapshot integrity. Then the system completely comes to a grind. After sending the portsnap fetch to the background (^Z) and entering top the machine completely freezes without any indication as to why. I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. Any ideas on how to track this one down? Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:35:37PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Something tells me that if you were to enable USB Legacy Support and run Linux or Windows, you'd have a functioning mouse. This could simply be a BIOS bug (would not surprise me), or (more likely) a bug in FreeBSD's initialisation of the USB chip. FreeBSD's USB stack is under a great amount of (justified) scrutiny as of late, and there are efforts under CURRENT to replace the stack with a complete brand-new written-from-the ground-up stack (patches are available). It would be beneficial if someone with this sort of configuration oddity could run CURRENT with the new USB stack patches applied and see if things behave as expected. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked the biosno where does it address USB Legacy Supportonly options are to turn on or off support for the USB controller. My system is a Dell E310 (a few years old). Motherboard is an Intelnot sure of the model. I am currently running Linux (CentOS) with no problems. I have ran many other Linux distros with no problems. I am going to attempt to try to boot up and plug in keyboard after initialization...without mouse. see ya on the other side. ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19958656.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). An MSI motherboard did the same thing, only with a USB mouse. The BIOS defaulted to legacy emulation. The mouse would be briefly enabled during boot, then disabled as FreeBSD started. I found a message explaining it, disabled BIOS emulation, had no further problems, and... didn't investigate further. Now I can't find the exact post, but did find a thread that is similar: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1607862+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080224.freebsd-questions -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse would work if it was disconnected and reconnected. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
ton80 wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked the biosno where does it address USB Legacy Supportonly options are to turn on or off support for the USB controller. My system is a Dell E310 (a few years old). Motherboard is an Intelnot sure of the model. I am currently running Linux (CentOS) with no problems. I have ran many other Linux distros with no problems. I am going to attempt to try to boot up and plug in keyboard after initialization...without mouse. see ya on the other side. ton80 OK, I tried several different methods and two other keyboards...no luck. During bootup, it sees the USB ports...then it halts them. What is SIOS? ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19959001.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:19:40AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). An MSI motherboard did the same thing, only with a USB mouse. The BIOS defaulted to legacy emulation. The mouse would be briefly enabled during boot, then disabled as FreeBSD started. I found a message explaining it, disabled BIOS emulation, had no further problems, and... didn't investigate further. Now I can't find the exact post, but did find a thread that is similar: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1607862+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080224.freebsd-questions Ahh, right. But now we're talking about keyboards, when before we were talking strictly about mice. Then I remembered that the PS/2 interface actually handles both keyboards *and* mice during initialisation, which means the translation/emulation layer does the same thing. The problem in that thread is partially documented in the ukbd(4) man page; see the paragraph starting with If you want to use a USB keyboard as your default. The hint commands shown should do the right thing. However, *do not* add them to device.hints -- add them to /boot/loader.conf. device.hints can be overwritten when changes occur in it (I forget if installkernel or mergemaster does this), and you will lose your changes. You can also type the hint commands into the loader section prior to booting. The OP might want to try doing this: at the FreeBSD Beastie/loader menu, hit 6 to go to the Loader prompt. At the prompt, type in: set hint.atkbd.0.disable=1 set hint.atkbdc.0.disable=1 boot And then tell us if your keyboard works during sysinstall. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse would work if it was disconnected and reconnected. Yes, it is. But I used to my radio mouse and don't like to walk to the computer each time it freezes. The computer is used for FreeBSD-current testing and may freeze many times a day. Esp. if I test radeon drivers. :-( WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah...if only it were that easy! My system does not have PS2 connectors...only USB. So if I cannot get the USB workingI cannot use FreeBSD. Would OpenBSD give me the same problems I wonder? Thanks, ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19944188.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:50AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah...if only it were that easy! My system does not have PS2 connectors...only USB. So if I cannot get the USB workingI cannot use FreeBSD. In this case, correct. Would OpenBSD give me the same problems I wonder? I don't know what the state of OpenBSD's USB stack is, and the last time I encountered NetBSD's USB stack was 7 years ago (not so pleasant results). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation Hangs
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ton80 Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:54 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Hangs Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Yes, you can remove the hard disk, put it in a different machine, install FreeBSD on it, then move the disk back. You could always try installing with JUST the USB keyboard or with a -different- USB keyboard. I would suspect that if you stick in a Linux Ubuntu install CD and it also fails to detect keyboard and mouse, that you will get more traction with your machine hardware manufacturer when reporting a problem. Hopefully your system is a new one within the 30 day return window and you can return it and get a different one. One last thing - it might be possible that your machine motherboard has a port for a standard keyboard, with a header on the motherboard, and it just isn't brought out the back of the machine. Please also post the make and model of the motherboard in use so we know what to avoid here. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation Hangs
Yes, you can remove the hard disk, put it in a different machine, install FreeBSD on it, then move the disk back. At that point, if you don't need a graphical console, then a serial console might be a good work-around option. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html for more info. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:54 -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Thanks, ton80 I currently have to attach my USB k/b and mouse via a USB hub, rather than directly to the USB ports on this PC. I'm using a cheap no-name hub here at the moment and it has done the job so far. See if attaching via a hub improves things if you can. Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
