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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:30:38 -0500
From:      Scott Stevens <scotts@speakeasy.net>
To:        Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lockup on install
Message-ID:  <20011027203039.5E65637B405@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011026173313.A12107@gahch.it.ca>
References:  <20011026173313.A12107@gahch.it.ca>

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The same thing happened to me.  If you have the onboard USB interrupt 
disabled in the BIOS settings, try enabling it.

On Friday 26 October 2001 04:33 pm, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> This hasn't happened to me before.
>
> Asus P2B-DS (one CPU) with onboard AIC-7890, 128MB RAM, a couple of UW
> SCSI drives.  I've tried installing both from floppy and bootable CD,
> with the same results.  I get past the kernel config to where it starts
> probing devices, and the last thing that gets displayed is:
>
>  plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>
> At this point I appear to have a full crash, because caps lock and num
> lock won't change, and Ctl-Alt-Del is ignored.
>
> I've tried removing all extraneous goop from both the kernel config and
> the BIOS settings.  I've tried with "PNP OS" set both to Yes and to No.
> I've tried swapping the video card (different brand, different chipset).
> And I have now run out of ideas.
>
> The box was working fine running FreeBSD 3.2 up until last night, when
> I low-level-formatted the hard disks and tried to start over.
>
> Anyone have a clue what's wrong?
>
> Thanks.

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