From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 20:11:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB0B37B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA50979; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:10:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <026501c0dcec$b5b53c40$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Lamalle?= , References: <01051416303806.00365@micro208> Subject: Re: Install problems with 4.3-RELEASE Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:11:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had no end of similar problems with machines I figure were designed specifically to run Windows (typically virtually anything with a brand name). In some cases I believe its an IDE driver "feature". For some unknown reason the extent of the problem often varies with the FreeBSD version, it may be for example that a 3.x version will work whereas a 4.x won't. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cédric Lamalle" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:30 AM Subject: Install problems with 4.3-RELEASE > Hello, > I couldn't install the FreeBSD 4.3 Release on my notebook (HP Omnibook XE2). > The loading of the Kernel (after the menu driven hardware config and command > line config too) hanged after PLIP0. I thought this was a problem with my > parallel, so before trying to redefine IRQ or so I decided to disable it to > see what could happen : this time the kernel stopped after the detection of > the comm ports... Same thing : freeze... I then decided to remove the com > ports, thinking of a general IO port problem, but nothing moved ! The kernel > still freeze (however, I'm able to reboot with the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys). > Any Idea ? What is the next piece of hardware (after cua and lp) detected by > the kernel ?? > > Thanks for any help (and for reading this!). > > Bye, > > Cédric. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message