Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:20:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New bootloader oddities Message-ID: <199811200920.BAA00658@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:06:14 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811191254390.1624-200000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> Anyways, I figured I'd try out the new bootloader and see how it handles > an ELF kernel. I noticed the bootloader itself doesn't detect any PnP > anything. So I tried to boot the ELF kernel. It hung at the detecting > PnP stuff stage. My box has a singular PCI card (video), and a ISA PnP > card (shown below from an a.out kernel). The config file used for the > [elf] kernel is attached. Made world yesterday, boot loader is v0.85 or > something similar. Award BIOS, generic mobo, integrated aic7880. > > Probing for PnP devices: > CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL009c [0x9c008c0e] Serial 0x1003d0c7 Comp ID: PNP0600 [0x0006 > d041] > pcm1 (SB16pnp <SB16 PnP> sn 0x1003d0c7) at 0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 on > isa If it's printed the message, it's finished with the probe. It's likely that it was looking for something else and either hung or you got impatient before it timed out. Normal procedure as documented by anyone that's ever written up the configuration process is to disable everything that you don't have using userconfig; if you haven't tried this, you should. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message
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