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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:26:38 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:    Re: hang on bootup on 5.2.1: isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
Message-ID:  <200403091726.39491.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83EB@mail.sandvine.com>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83EB@mail.sandvine.com>

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On Friday 05 March 2004 01:40 pm, Don Bowman wrote:
> My system is hanging as it boots. I've dropped into db as below. system is
> running 5.2.1. This is a dual xeon, running sched 4bsd.
>
> It seems to be in some sort of infinite loop.
>
> Suggests on where to go with this? Is there something I should try? The
> boot -v is below as well, its in isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices.
>
> if i run 'pnpscan' from the loader, it returns right away.
>
> There's no particular isa devices that i'm aware of, this is a new
> p4-based xeon motherboard.
>
> Note: the system only does this 'most' of the time, maybe 80%.
> It will do it on the generic kernel from the cd as well as the
> one i built.

Can you do a 'show intrcnt' from the ddb prompt to see if this is an interrupt 
storm?  Also, can try booting with ACPI enabled to see if that alleviates 
your problem?

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