From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 7 14:59:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29457 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles235.castles.com [208.214.165.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29434 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:59:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08132; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902072255.OAA08132@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Milliken, Scott" cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Aha! I think I figured out what part sysinstall doesn't like In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:41:07 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:55:17 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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. More to the point, having it share/shadow an interrupt that ought to be assigned to something else. The fact that it came/was set for IRQ 3 gives me the creeps. That's just plain Uglee. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message