From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 27 7:39:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCF137B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:39:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from planetwe.com (unknown [10.0.0.24]) by mail.planetwe.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1137DD592 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:39:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A22829A.7040207@planetwe.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:49:46 -0600 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 RELEASE - Install hangs during boot (resolved) References: <4.3.2.20001122201959.00cadd40@207.227.119.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I have a system (brand new, clean, never previously had anything >> installed on it) on which 4.2 hangs during the boot sequence when I >> try to install. The system is : >> >> Asus A7V MB >> Matrox G400 dual head >> IBM 45GB ATA100 Deskstar as primary master on the Promise ATA100 >> controler >> CD rom drive as primary slave on the Primary IDE port >> CPU: Duron 800 >> 256 MB PC133 ram >> SB Live >> Netgear FA310TX rev D2 >> >> The ATA100 controller is detected, the hang point is always with the >> last line as: >> >> plip0: on ppbus0 The problem would appear to have been this: For some as of yet unknown reason, the NIC was grabbing IRQ 7. By wiring the NIC to IRQ 9 (which nothing else was using) in the bios, I was able to enable the parallel port, and move on with life. The ATA100 controler works flawlessly, the SBLive was no problem to make work, and I am just as happy with 4.2 as I have been with any version of FreeBSD I've used. Kudos to the developers, and many thanks to Jeffrey Mountin for helping me work through this. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator drew@planetwe.com http://www.planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message