Re: Dell Inspiron 2600. need help installing

When booting with a GENERIC kernel, the laptop locks up after displaying
the following line:

pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2445) at 31.5 irq 5

After disabling/removal of eisa from the GENERIC kernel all is well and
the device probing continues without a hitch.  The next line to be
displayed after the pci0 line above is:

orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xcbfff,0xd0000-0xd3fff,0xd4000-0xd7fff on isa0

Scott.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerhard Sittig" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 2600. need help installing


> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:56 +1000, Scott Penno wrote:
> >
> > I had a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron 2500 in that I couldn't
boot
> > the GENERIC kernel for whatever reason.  I ended up compiling a
customised
> > kernel, loading that onto a set of boot floppies and everything was
pretty
> > smooth from there.
>
> Could you look at the diff between GENERIC and the kernel which
> works for you to identify what actually made it work?  This might
> help other users.
>
> If it is the disabling "eisa" which helps for Toshiba there
> probably is a need for a customized kernel.  I don't remember
> the ability to remove bus drivers on the fly.
>
> But if it's some device driver which disturbes or dazes other
> hardware in its probe phase for absent hardware it could easily
> be disabled by means of "boot -c" and USER_CONFIG.  It is BTW
> already recommended procedure to disable every driver you don't
> have hardware for, especially the ISA ones which are not fully
> Plug and Play capable like PCI is.  This is why the appropriate
> menu comes up when booting from install media.  Although I don't
> like the fact that the cursor is located on the "leave me alone,
> I don't want to fiddle with this stuff" by default.
>
> > > i want to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE from cd.
> > > i boot the cd (i tried the floppy an the same result) and freezes at
this
> > > point:
> > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2483) at 31,3 irq 10
> > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2485) at 31,5 irq 10
> > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2486) at 31,6 irq 10 <--
HERE
>
> Did you look these up in a PCI database?  I'm not completely
> certain but ISTR the http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ URL.
>
> > > i think irq 10 is "O2 Micro" bus.
>
> Vendor 0x8086 (does it ring a bell?) is Intel.  I suspect this is
> some on board component living in the chipset.  Maybe you can
> disable the feature in the BIOS or with some Intel tool.
>
>
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