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From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
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Subject: Re: Re[2]: 4.4-Release install hangs
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On 21 Nov 2001, at 23:07, Brian Sobolak boldly uttered: 

> Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 7:52:09 AM, you wrote:
> 
> PJK> I tried scroll-lock earlier, doesn't have any effect.  The last line 
> PJK> on the screen (the one I presume it is hanging on) doing a verbose 
> PJK> boot is:
> 
> >> isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
> 
> This is just a total guess (and am thus replying off list) but have
> you disabled PnP in your BIOS?  It sometimes mucks with things.
> 
> brian


OK, I got to the bottom of this.

Believe it or not, the culprit was a setting in the BIOS pertaining 
to the USB port, called "Assign USB IRQ".

Since I wasn't planning to use USB, I set it to "No".  Bad Juju.  
Once I changed that, the FreeBSD install no longer hung. (I set all 
the rest of the settings back to where they were in the first place 
just to make sure)

Guess either there is something funky about the way the BIOS on this 
board disables the USB IRQ, or the FreeBSD prober/installer has a bit 
of an oversensitivity to it.

Thanks all for your suggestions.


Phil



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