From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 7:45:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.internexo.co.cr (iguana.internexo.co.cr [196.40.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5915914DCC for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 07:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by iguana.internexo.co.cr (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17089; Wed, 5 May 1999 08:43:59 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope Message-Id: <199905051443.IAA17089@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Subject: Re: 3.1 install hangs during probe To: mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us (Mike Newell) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:43:59 -0600 (CST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Mike Newell" at May 4, 99 11:13:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes - that was my problem. My MB BIOS was using IRQ12 for both the mouse > and the PCI slots. Once I changed the PCI slots to use IRQ11 it fixed it. > Of course, your situation is probably quite different; I was just relating > my problem... Thanks for relating ;-) The BIOS on this machine isn't very configurable, it seems. > You pulled all the cards out 'cept the hard/floppy drive (which could, of > course, be on the MB) right? I've been resisting doing that, but that's the next step. If I yank the 3c509 and it gets past the probe freeze, then I'll know that's the card, and will have to run out and get a NE2000 clone or something (in my neck of the woods you can't just run out and get > You could also try booting in verbose mode (-v I think) to see what's > going on. That's what gave me my clue... I've been booting with "-dcv" (or is it "-dqv", can't remember because the machine is currently up running BSDI) and I get _some_ clues, but haven't solved the problem. I tried disabling the cache in the BIOS, so of course it ran slow as hell, but still ended up in the same place. I'll keep you posted ;-/ Thanks, -T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message