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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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Subject: Must disable ex0 to install.
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>Number:         10465
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Must disable ex0 to install.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    mdodd
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar  7 09:20:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Apr 14 11:10:20 PDT 2003
>Last-Modified:  Mon Apr 14 11:10:20 PDT 2003
>Originator:     Thomas David Rivers
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Dignus,LLC
>Environment:

	Two machines, a 486dx-66 circa 1995 and a newer pentium have
	experienced this problem.  I note that the common item between
	the two is an NE2000 clone, configured as IRQ 9 and port 0x300.

>Description:

	Booting from the kern.flp doesn't succeed if ex0 is enabled.
	Apparently, the probe hangs in some way, locking up the machine.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Boot from kern.flp... wait for the hang.

>Fix:

	Disabling the probe for ex0 allows the boot to continue.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: mdodd 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 12 23:48:56 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Driver updated in -CURRENT.  Can you try booting a -CURRENT install 
disk to see if this problem remains? 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mdodd 
Responsible-Changed-By: mdodd 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 18 00:30:44 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
'ex' seems to be my problem. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10465 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: mdodd 
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 14 11:09:44 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
I believe the autodetection code makes this problem a non-issue. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10465 
>Unformatted:
