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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:59:08 -0500
From:      "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        "masqurin" <masqurin@wanadoo.fr>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: problem during hardware probing
Message-ID:  <02da01c21e36$a0d24fc0$14ec910c@fbccarthage.com>
References:  <3D1B98D0.10403@wanadoo.fr>

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Check your RAM??

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "masqurin" <masqurin@wanadoo.fr>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: problem during hardware probing


> Hello,
> 
> I can't install freebsd 4.6 (nor 4.5) on my notebook (compaq presario 
> 1211 EA).
> 
> At the beginning of the installation process, during hardware probing, 
> the program freeze. The last two lines displayed before freezing are:
> 
> sc0: <System console> at drq 0 flag 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> 
> At first, I thought that the value 0x100 and 0x300 where not correct, 
> and so I tried to change them in the kernel configuration section.
> 
> I found the line
> 
> Syscons console driver sc0 flags: 0x???
> 
> and replaced the "???" by common values such as 0x100, 0x200 and 0x300.
> But none of them solved my problem.
> 
> I've also tried other Unix and Linux distributions such as netBSD, Suse, 
> Caldera... But it always fail during hardware probing.
> 
> It would be great if someone could throw light on this problem for
> me !
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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