amd64/74014: 5.3-RELEASE-AMD64 freezes on boot during installation due to USB problems

[Tobias Mohrlueder]

>Number:         74014
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       5.3-RELEASE-AMD64 freezes on boot during installation due to USB problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 16 20:20:28 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tobias Mohrlueder
>Release:        5.3-RELEASE-AMD64
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not possible - if I disable USB in BIOS, there is another problem during the boot process. It hangs on "Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0" (NOT a freeze, I suppose, since numlock is still working).
>Description:
      The system freezes on boot just after the menu (with the daemon on the right side). It doesn't matter if I choose to boot without ACPI or any other option. Right after hitting RETURN this "progress-thingy" (sorry for my bad english) in the lower left corner shows up and then stops after few seconds. I encountered exactly the same error with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-AMD64. My mainboard is an FSC D1607 - without the latest BIOS version, because there is nothing in the changelogs that looks like it could help to solve the problem.
>How-To-Repeat:
      Just press RESET and try to install FreeBSD again.
>Fix:
      Disable USB in BIOS completely.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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