From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 30 0: 2:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CC8159E3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA08150 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:01:39 GMT Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id BAA01029 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:01:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199903300801.BAA01029@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: Odd install problem with the latest 4.0-current snap Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:17:07 MST." <199903300717.AAA00534@harmony.village.org> References: <199903300717.AAA00534@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:01:38 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199903300717.AAA00534@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : I'm trying to install the 4.0-19990324 snapshot on a new machine. I'm : finding that two things are going odd. First is that the ex driver : isn't working at all (I can literally take the EtherPro card that is : in this machine and put it in the machine I'm typing on now and the : kernel will find it in the latter case, but not the former). I can't : seem to get the boot blocks to allow me to say -v to get more : information from the install kernel. OK. I removed *ALL* of the devices that I wasn't using. Seems like any read/write of port 300 messes things up (or some other port that something was messing with). Once I killed all the SCSI devices (in addition to the network ones that I had killed before), I was able to get this card to probe. Yippie Skippie! Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message