On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 09:38:18PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:54:02AM -0800, Ian Main wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a Eurocom laptop, which I am trying to install NetBSD on, but it
> > doesn't want to complete the boot stage.  It's a fairly standard system:
> > 
> > Celeron 433
> > 128M ram
> > Mach64 video
> > ps/2 mouse
> > 
> > etc.
> > 
> > Oddly, OpenBSD boots fine, but NetBSD hangs at boot.. the last msg printed is:
> > 
> > isa0 at pcib0
> > 
> > I tried NetBSD 1.4.1 and the 19991223 snapshot boot floppies.
> 
> Did you let it in this state long enouth ? The IDE probe can take up to 59s
> to complete if things go bad.
> Can you enter the kernel debugger from here (ctrl-alt-esc) ?

Yeah, I walked away for about 20 minutes one time.. I'll try the debugger
and see what I can find.  Thanks for the tip! :)

Hmm.. the other possibility I suppose is to build a kernel with limited isa
device support.. will try this if I can't otherwise get it working.

Ian