On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Bill Paul wrote:
> Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following
> code:
>
> #if NPNP > 0
> /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */
> pnp_configure();
> #endif
>
> /*
> * Explicitly probe and attach ISA last. The isa bus saves
> * it's device node at attach time for us here.
> */
> if (isa_bus_device)
> bus_generic_attach(isa_bus_device);
>
> However isa_bus_device is still NULL so we never get any ISA devices
> attached. No ISA devices means no console (the VGA card and serial ports
> are both ISA devices), so we explode.
>
> Since the ISA bus in this machine is on-board instead of being hung
> off a PCI to ISA bridge, I suspect that somebody broke the handling
> on on-board ISA buses.
>
> Thank you very much, may I have another.
It seems like isa bus is never being attached for some reason. Have a
look at nexus_attach() and see if anything suspicious is happening (like
an error return from device_probe_and_attach()).
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