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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:18:04 -0400
To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: kern/3220: 2.2.1 RELEASE - hangs during boot... 
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Hello,

At 08:02 AM 4/8/97 +0900, you wrote:
>
>>>Release:        2.2.1 RELEASE
>>>Environment:
>>n/a
>>>Description:
>>Hangs during boot - immediately after message "probing for devices
>>on ISA bus".  After machine hung for a while, tried unplugging
>>keyboard.  Machine then came to life, finished booting.  Plugged
>>in keyboard, worked OK.
>
>If you can login, apply the following patch to
>/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c, rebuild the kernel, and see if it works. 
>
>BTW is this the same PR as kern/3059?

Yes - but actually, I was unable to pinpoint the problem back then.  The
problems mainly occured with
the new releases - 2.2, 2.2.1, 3.0-SNAP, but not with the old ones (2.1.5,
2.0.5).

Thanks for the help.
        
            Donn

(p.s. maybe my bios is giving me the problem.)