drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de wrote:
> 
> 
> prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk said:
> > Yes indeed, that should have been with a '='. I still have
> >   pci0 at mainbus0 bus0 : configuration mode 2 despite choosing N=1
> 
> "That's impossible." Are you sure pci_machdep.o got rebuilt?

Thank you for that - yes it had, but I hadn't config'd that time around...

> > but of course I don't know that mode 2 is wrong
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to tell: if it's a PCI box and
> no PCI devices are found, the mode is wrong.
> As soon as one PCI device is found, there is another
> problem.
> Mode 2 is always wrong with newer chipsets - I've only
> seen it on '486 boxes.

Ah - this is a 486, so this is all plausible and it must be some other
device probe that is making it hang. I never get as far as finding a
pci device in either mode, so it's all a bit vague at the moment..

Cheers,

Patrick