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Date:      Sun, 08 May 2005 15:37:13 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Henry <brassing@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Legacy hardware dropped in 5.X
Message-ID:  <86acn5sut2.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <AA7327FF-F29D-42C8-A73C-F703038D67DB@mac.com>
References:  <AA7327FF-F29D-42C8-A73C-F703038D67DB@mac.com>

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Henry <brassing@mac.com> writes:
> To try and explain it more, it is an old compaq presario that uses a
> weird AGP? slot to attach another board to the main motherboard. The
> extra attachment board has ISA/PCI slots on it for me to install
> network cards on.

That's not a custom bus extender slot, not an AGP slot.

>                   This is a problem I see because removing it gets
> 5.X installed, but having it attached doesn't.

Try booting in safe mode (which disables the APIC, and may help if
your bus extender has a broken PCI-PCI bridge)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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