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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall "probing devices" hangs only on 3.0-199810??-BETA, not on 2.2.7-RELEASE boot disk 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810161854040.1103-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810161847180.1103-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>

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Wahoo!  I disabled the one following ep0 in the visual userconfig
(Intel EtherExpress, I forget which one exactly) and she booted
right in.  Thanks a lot, Jordan.  You're the greatest. :)

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Matt Behrens wrote:

> First time I tried it, it seemed to hang after the ep0 probe returned
> "not found at 0x300".  It had probed all my hardware up until that
> point correctly, however.
> 
> What comes after ep0 in the default lineup?  Maybe I can try
> disabling that.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > I can't start the 3.0-19981009-BETA or 3.0-19981015-BETA install
> > > process because sysinstall is hanging at the "probing devices, this
> > > may take a while" screen.  Upon switching to the second VT, the
> > > final DEBUG message is either (forgive my paraphrasing please)
> > 
> > I saw that once myself, but only when I went and trimmed out
> > everything and its brother with the visual userconfig.  When I just
> > whacked return the next time through, editing nothing in the kernel
> > configuration, it went fine.  Could you perhaps try this so we could
> > narrow things down a bit?
> > 
> > - Jordan
> > 
> 
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Servant of Karen Behrens       | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and
Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would
I eat Penguins for breakfast.  | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . .


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