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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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