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Date:      Wed, 31 May 1995 02:25:36 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.0.5 completely hangs at boot 
Message-ID:  <199505310925.CAA09503@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 95 10:55:27 %2B0200." <m0sGjYl-00010UC@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> 

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>Guido van Rooij wrote:
>> 
>> I wanted to try 2.0.5 on a Digital XL590 pentium PC.
>> So I rawrited the boot.flp on a floppy and booted form it. The probing
>> worked fine. At the point where the kernel announces a 1075K big
>> root in MFS everything hangs. (ctrtl-alt-del is non functional as
>> are the *lock keys).
>> 
>> I tried it on another PC (another digital, now a 433sx) and it had exactly
>> the same symptoms. The only `strange' hardware they have are an ep0 in UTP
>> mode on irq10. I'll try and boot without the network card.
>> 
>
>I just removed the card and then it worked...(on the 486 33 MHz)
>The network card is:
>3com EtherlinkIII (3c509b-c).
>
>
>-Guido

Disable mcd0, mcd1, wt0, and ie0 via the "kernel -c" userconfig menu.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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