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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:47:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: hang during 5.0R installation
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030227134709.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr89unmm5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 27-Feb-2003 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> [bcc: to -mobile]
> 
> An acquaintance of mine is trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on an oldish
> Compaq laptop.  It seems to run 4.7 just fine, but he has a Cardbus
> NIC and therefore needs 5.0.
> 
> Booting from the 5.0-RELEASE install floppies, the laptop freezes
> while probing PCI devices.  My acquaintance has (literally) taken a
> couple of snaphots of the process:
> 
> http://home.no.net/allyse/freebsd/bootnr1.jpg
> http://home.no.net/allyse/freebsd/atakommando.jpg
> http://home.no.net/allyse/freebsd/herstopperdet.jpg
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?

Try turning USB off in the BIOS (or on if it is off).

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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