From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 12:41:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18915 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.salestech.com (gatekeeper.salestech.com [198.153.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18898 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MillikS@sti.imshealth.com) Received: from [162.44.80.67] by gatekeeper.salestech.com for id PAA25847; Wed Feb 3 15:41:14 1999 Received: by STIUSATLCX1.salestech.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:41:08 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Aha! I think I figured out what part sysinstall doesn't like Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:41:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain To: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" From: "Milliken, Scott" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Being the fidgety person that I am, I decided to start poking around the configuration of the machine that kept hanging up during the sysinstall probes. (By the way, I forgot to mention that it also has a 3COM 3c90x PCI Ethernet card) After booting into Compaq's wacky little Win 3.1 based system setup I looked at what IRQ assignments were being made. The auto configuration program from Compaq had assigned the xl0 interface to IRQ 3 for some reason. Just for grins I changed the IRQ assignment to IRQ 9 and retried the boot floppy. WHAM! I made it into the menu for sysinstall with no problem! Of course I had to set it back to IRQ 3 and see if the process would lock up again and yes, it most certainly did. Looks like the problem deals with having a NIC on IRQ 3. Scott A. Milliken IMS Health Strategic Technologies Systems Integration Group Atlanta, GA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message