On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:32PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I need to have both 1.5.1 and -current on one of my machines.  I'd like
> to do it by running -current inside VMware.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't get the -current install disks to get through
> autoconfiguration.  With IDE "disks", I get to the probe of pciide0,
> and then I get a hard hang (the only thing that seems odd up to that

Did you wait long enouth ? The timeout for IDE probe is 31s, and if the
timer isn't calibrated properly this can take much more time.

> point is that cpu0 is probed as 471983.81MHz instead of the correct
> 1300MHz).  With SCSI "disks" bha0's probed, then pcib0, but I get the
> same hard hang right after the "isa0 at pcib0" line.

May be the same problem: hang when trying to probe the legacy ISA IDE
controller.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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