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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:32:16 -0400
To: jonas <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE hangs during boot on SMP machine.
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Try using just the primary IDE controller only and make sure its not 
sharing its IRQ with anyone else.

         ---Mike

At 11:32 AM 9/20/2001 +0200, jonas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The subject tells the problem.
>
>The machine is a SMP machine with two PII 450 with onboard IDE and SCSI.
>Another IDE controller is attached too, a Promose FastTrak 100 TX4. I
>have tried to disable things like the parallel port, serial port, floppy
>controller, USB, the onboard SCSI-controller without getting any
>progress in the boot process.
>
>Booting with "boot -v", the last lines before it hangs are:
>
>Device configuration finished.
>bpf: l0 attached
>bpf: sl0 attached
>
>What I really want to know is how to get more information about what's
>happening to give a better problem description.
>
>Can anyone give me a hint?
>
>/jonas
>
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