From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 20:13:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (unknown [209.31.147.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5256D158C8 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 20:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us) Received: from localhost (mnewell@localhost) by bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA26667; Tue, 4 May 1999 23:13:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:13:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell To: Theodore Hope Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 install hangs during probe In-Reply-To: <199905042108.PAA17737@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 May 1999, Theodore Hope wrote: freebsd> > I had this happen to me. It turned out in my case that my BIOS was using freebsd> > IRQ12 for the PCI interrupt; I changed it to IRQ11 and it worked fine. freebsd> > The problem occurred while it was probing a LinkSys Ethernet card; I freebsd> > figured THAT out 'cause when I removed the card it booted right up. freebsd> freebsd> This machine is using irq 12 for the ps/2 mouse (that's what BSDI says freebsd> when it's booting), and I don't think I can change that in the BIOS. Yes - that was my problem. My MB BIOS was using IRQ12 for both the mouse and the PCI slots. Once I changed the PCI slots to use IRQ11 it fixed it. Of course, your situation is probably quite different; I was just relating my problem... freebsd> Even if I use the 3com DOS-based utility to set a particular irq & iobase freebsd> for the card (3c509 Etherlink III), either 0x250/11 which BSDI uses freebsd> or 0x300/10 which is the default for freebsd, it still freezes up. freebsd> freebsd> Any ideas? Thanks, You pulled all the cards out 'cept the hard/floppy drive (which could, of course, be on the MB) right? You could also try booting in verbose mode (-v I think) to see what's going on. That's what gave me my clue... Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message