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Date:      Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:15:40 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: New bootloader oddities 
Message-ID:  <199811220715.XAA09566@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:43:13 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811200142260.12830-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> 

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> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > If it's printed the message, it's finished with the probe.  It's likely 
> > that it was looking for something else and either hung or you got 
> > impatient before it timed out.  Normal procedure as documented by 
> > anyone that's ever written up the configuration process is to disable 
> > everything that you don't have using userconfig; if you haven't tried 
> > this, you should.
> 
> Ehm.  The output I showed was from an a.out kernel which works fine.  The
> _ELF_ kernel, and the bootblocks don't detect anything.  The _ELF_ kernel
> hangs after printing the initial probing for PnP devices message..

When you say the bootblocks "don't detect anything", what do you mean?

Does 'pnpscan -v' in the bootloader show anything?

It sounds like your hardware may be getting upset.


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