Freeze in 5.3 Release Install

[Charles Ulrich]

Mark Jacobs said:
> I downloaded the 5.3 release cd and successfully used it to install on my IBM
> T42 laptop.
>
> Today I attempted to upgrade the machine that was running 4.10 stable to 5.3
> using the same cd. The install is hanging during the probe of devices right
> after it announces ACD1: DVDR <Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105/1.33> at ata1-slave
> UDMA33.
>
> The attempted install failed twice at the same point. A hard reboot of the
> machine is required.

If there is an empty IDE channel on your system, FreeBSD will hang for awhile
on it while it tries to probe a drive. Perhaps try waiting a little longer...

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Charles Ulrich
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