Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:40:30 -0400 From: John Holland <john@zoner.org> To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs Message-ID: <4.3.1.0.20000626103947.00aa2c20@mail175.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com> <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>
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At 04:36 PM 6/26/00 +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: >On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote: > > Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a > new > > kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* > > devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was > > working perfectly. > > > > Did something break in the ed driver in the two months since I last built > > the system from source? > > >On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA >NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case. I contacted >Paul Saab, who commited the change, about it and hope he will have a >solution. As a quick workaround, you might try replacing if_ed.c with an >'old' one and recompile your kernel. I didn't try this myself. Instead >I replaced my ISA NIC with a PCI NIC (also using ed0...) which works fine. >If you go into config mode during boot and disable the ed driver the system >will boot again - without network of course :-(. >(The change in if_ed.c had to do with probing newer cards). Thanks. That's exactly what I needed to know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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