Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:10:49 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Cory McWilliams <yoink@rochester.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lock-Ups on Boot Message-ID: <20000127141048.X26520@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJPNOILHPJCBAONCPCEGMCAAA.yoink@rochester.rr.com>; from yoink@rochester.rr.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 03:36:03PM -0500 References: <NDBBJPNOILHPJCBAONCPCEGMCAAA.yoink@rochester.rr.com>
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* Cory McWilliams <yoink@rochester.rr.com> [000127 13:02] wrote: > Hello, > I was told in #freebsd on efnet to send an email to this address with my > problem. I hope you can help. I'm new to FreeBSD and pretty frustrated > already. > The computer I'm working on consists of a Micron M54li motherboard and a > 486 100 processor. > I can strip it down to having only an ISA video card installed and > everything works as expected except for "stray irq 7" messages occasionally > on boot. I have several RealTech 8029-compatible network cards from > different manufacturers. When I put any one in it locks up around where it > says something like "changing root to wd0s1a" or after a "stray irq 7" > message. > Sometimes I am able to still login and type commands although the screen > doesn't change as I can hear the hard drive work and I am able to shut down > the computer that way. Other times nothing works. > My BIOS provides me with no way of checking which IRQs are in use or > forcing them to any values. I don't know where to go from here. > Please provide me with any information that might help. I would prefer not > making this computer into a boat anchor. This sounds like you disabled the console device, are you sure you haven't disabled 'sc0' in the kernel config menu? In further emails please wrap lines at 70 characters. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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