I am facing a lockup prior to getting to sysinstall. In fact, during the default kernel boot,
the system locks up right after printing these lines:
cbb0: ... cardbus0: .... pccard0: ....
I tried booting without ACPI, booting "safe mode", but no option in the menu helped.
I then googled for similar problem (for a couple of hours) and exhaustively tested
ALL combinations of the following:
set hw.eisa_slots=0 set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set hint.pcic.0.disabled=1 set hw.pci.enable_io_modes=1 set hw.pci.do_powerstate=0
(setting them from option 6, and then typing: boot)
Nothing helped. Eventually, I realized that the lockup occurs while probing PCMCIA cards
(inside the pccard device driver?) so I removed the two plastic place-holders inside
the two PCMCIA slots (they don't seem to bother linux/windowsXP).
Lo and behold, it moved: It passed through the ...
pccard0:...
line and locked up a couple of lines later:
pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci1 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Perhaps there's a way I can disable probing of this PCI bus? (using lspci from Linux verified
that no cards seem to exist on this "bridge").
Given the fact that I have coded Windows device drivers for a lliving in the past
(and that I also have a working gentoo linux installation)
I can pretty much test anything you throw at me.
Help?
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