Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:22:55 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> To: "Milliken, Scott" <MillikS@sti.imshealth.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Aha! I think I figured out what part sysinstall doesn't like Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990203221821.1906B-100000@ns.double-barrel.be> In-Reply-To: <C26E7066AAA6D211AB16006097A52FCC5F61AB@STIUSATLCX1.salestech.com>
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I think that has to do with what IRQ 3 is normally used for e.i. a com port. And if I remember correctly from the FreeBSD bootup sequence it allways looks for a comm port during sysinstall. --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Milliken, Scott wrote: > Being the fidgety person that I am, I decided to start poking around the > configuration of the machine that kept hanging up during the sysinstall > probes. (By the way, I forgot to mention that it also has a 3COM 3c90x PCI > Ethernet card) After booting into Compaq's wacky little Win 3.1 based > system setup I looked at what IRQ assignments were being made. The auto > configuration program from Compaq had assigned the xl0 interface to IRQ 3 > for some reason. Just for grins I changed the IRQ assignment to IRQ 9 and > retried the boot floppy. WHAM! I made it into the menu for sysinstall > with no problem! Of course I had to set it back to IRQ 3 and see if the > process would lock up again and yes, it most certainly did. > > Looks like the problem deals with having a NIC on IRQ 3. > > Scott A. Milliken > IMS Health Strategic Technologies > Systems Integration Group > Atlanta, GA > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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