Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:44:10 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monday strikes again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908232136420.72739-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199908231835.OAA06292@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following > code: > > #if NPNP > 0 > /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */ > pnp_configure(); > #endif > > /* > * Explicitly probe and attach ISA last. The isa bus saves > * it's device node at attach time for us here. > */ > if (isa_bus_device) > bus_generic_attach(isa_bus_device); > > However isa_bus_device is still NULL so we never get any ISA devices > attached. No ISA devices means no console (the VGA card and serial ports > are both ISA devices), so we explode. > > Since the ISA bus in this machine is on-board instead of being hung > off a PCI to ISA bridge, I suspect that somebody broke the handling > on on-board ISA buses. > > Thank you very much, may I have another. It seems like isa bus is never being attached for some reason. Have a look at nexus_attach() and see if anything suspicious is happening (like an error return from device_probe_and_attach()). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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