From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 21 23:17:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10894 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:17:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles211.castles.com [208.214.165.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10889 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09566; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811220715.XAA09566@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alex Zepeda cc: Mike Smith , current Subject: Re: New bootloader oddities In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:43:13 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:15:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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