From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jul 11 11:17:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51B37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9F9143E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 23183 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2002 18:17:18 -0000 Received: from p509101c8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (80.145.1.200) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 18:17:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 16542 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2002 17:52:03 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 17:52:03 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g6BHpuQ16527 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:51:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:51:56 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 2600. need help installing Message-ID: <20020711195156.R1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00c401c22832$ac17ec40$967ba8c0@dnadust> <000401c2286d$7490ace0$0128a8c0@jupiter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000401c2286d$7490ace0$0128a8c0@jupiter>; from scott.penno@gennex.com.au on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +1000 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:56 +1000, Scott Penno wrote: > > I had a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron 2500 in that I couldn't boot > the GENERIC kernel for whatever reason. I ended up compiling a customised > kernel, loading that onto a set of boot floppies and everything was pretty > smooth from there. Could you look at the diff between GENERIC and the kernel which works for you to identify what actually made it work? This might help other users. If it is the disabling "eisa" which helps for Toshiba there probably is a need for a customized kernel. I don't remember the ability to remove bus drivers on the fly. But if it's some device driver which disturbes or dazes other hardware in its probe phase for absent hardware it could easily be disabled by means of "boot -c" and USER_CONFIG. It is BTW already recommended procedure to disable every driver you don't have hardware for, especially the ISA ones which are not fully Plug and Play capable like PCI is. This is why the appropriate menu comes up when booting from install media. Although I don't like the fact that the cursor is located on the "leave me alone, I don't want to fiddle with this stuff" by default. > > i want to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE from cd. > > i boot the cd (i tried the floppy an the same result) and freezes at this > > point: > > pci0: (vendor=08086, dev=0x2483) at 31,3 irq 10 > > pci0: (vendor=08086, dev=0x2485) at 31,5 irq 10 > > pci0: (vendor=08086, dev=0x2486) at 31,6 irq 10 <-- HERE Did you look these up in a PCI database? I'm not completely certain but ISTR the http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ URL. > > i think irq 10 is "O2 Micro" bus. Vendor 0x8086 (does it ring a bell?) is Intel. I suspect this is some on board component living in the chipset. Maybe you can disable the feature in the BIOS or with some Intel tool. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message