From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 12:36:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC02315724 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:36:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yoink@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.81]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:33:41 -0500 Received: from Cory ([24.93.8.107]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:34:01 -0500 From: "Cory McWilliams" To: Subject: Lock-Ups on Boot Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:36:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was told in #freebsd on efnet to send an email to this address with my problem. I hope you can help. I'm new to FreeBSD and pretty frustrated already. The computer I'm working on consists of a Micron M54li motherboard and a 486 100 processor. I can strip it down to having only an ISA video card installed and everything works as expected except for "stray irq 7" messages occasionally on boot. I have several RealTech 8029-compatible network cards from different manufacturers. When I put any one in it locks up around where it says something like "changing root to wd0s1a" or after a "stray irq 7" message. Sometimes I am able to still login and type commands although the screen doesn't change as I can hear the hard drive work and I am able to shut down the computer that way. Other times nothing works. My BIOS provides me with no way of checking which IRQs are in use or forcing them to any values. I don't know where to go from here. Please provide me with any information that might help. I would prefer not making this computer into a boat anchor. Cory McWilliams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message