From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 23 13:34:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9181565A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA59823; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:44:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:44:10 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bill Paul Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monday strikes again In-Reply-To: <199908231835.OAA06292@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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