From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 13:23:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24742 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24736 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.double-barrel.be (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03062; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:23:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be(194.7.102.18) via SMTP by mail.double-barrel.be, id smtpdta3060; Wed Feb 3 22:22:57 1999 Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ns.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA01943; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:22:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:22:55 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: "Milliken, Scott" cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Aha! I think I figured out what part sysinstall doesn't like In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that has to do with what IRQ 3 is normally used for e.i. a com port. And if I remember correctly from the FreeBSD bootup sequence it allways looks for a comm port during sysinstall. --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Milliken, Scott wrote: > Being the fidgety person that I am, I decided to start poking around the > configuration of the machine that kept hanging up during the sysinstall > probes. (By the way, I forgot to mention that it also has a 3COM 3c90x PCI > Ethernet card) After booting into Compaq's wacky little Win 3.1 based > system setup I looked at what IRQ assignments were being made. The auto > configuration program from Compaq had assigned the xl0 interface to IRQ 3 > for some reason. Just for grins I changed the IRQ assignment to IRQ 9 and > retried the boot floppy. WHAM! I made it into the menu for sysinstall > with no problem! Of course I had to set it back to IRQ 3 and see if the > process would lock up again and yes, it most certainly did. > > Looks like the problem deals with having a NIC on IRQ 3. > > Scott A. Milliken > IMS Health Strategic Technologies > Systems Integration Group > Atlanta, GA > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message