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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:37:25 +0200
From:      masqurin <masqurin@wanadoo.fr>
To:        "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem during hardware probing
Message-ID:  <3D1BF615.3040508@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <3D1B98D0.10403@wanadoo.fr> <02da01c21e36$a0d24fc0$14ec910c@fbccarthage.com>

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I think that the ram is OK, because winXP seems to work fine.

Thanks !

Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

> Check your RAM??
> 
> KDK
> 
> ----- 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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