You fail to metion what laptop or PCIC chipset you have. At least for
me, this is very valuable information to try to help you.
Paul ANderson
Andrej Todosic wrote:
>
> hi everyone ,
> i need a bit of help getting started ,
> I am running redhat on 2 macines at home ( 5.0)
> and i got a laptop and am trying to install it on there as well .
>
> Hmmmm... Problem starts at the very beginning the boot disk is locking up
> after loading the kernel on detecting pci devices ...
>
> i disabled the wavetable in the bios , tried both reg and expert mode also
> tried disabling lba mode in bios
> it keeps locking up at the same place ...
> i also tried freebsd for a change it locks up also probable at the same
> place cause its right after loading the kernel ( just so to tell you that i
> dont think its a redhat prob but my laptops ( or parameteres i am missing)
>
> here is what i see on the screen before it locks up :
>
> loading initrd.img
> loading vmlinuz
> uncompressing linux done
> now booting kernel
> console : 16 point 400scans
> colour : vga 80x25 1 virtual console
> pcibios_init: bios32 service directory structure at 0x000ec050
> pcibios_init: bios32 service directory entry at 0xee610
> pcibios_init: pci bios revision 2.10 entry at 0xee64e
> Probing PCI hardware
>
> and it stops right there ... wont fart any further no matter what
>
> Now anyone any idea what to do ..any parameter ?
> anything ? piece of hardware that may be the problem ?
>
> here is my config :
>
> sis510x bios
> teac cd38e ( 8x )
> trident cyber 9385
> 32 mb edo
> pnp bios 1.0a
> sis chipset and bios
> p150
> 1.44 toshiba HD
> 256k cache
> acerlabs mpeg decoder
> ess sound
> touchpad
>
> PS i thought the expert mode disables probing ?!?
>
> Andrej Todosic
> Junior Analyst
> Network Operations
> Mpact Immedia
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>
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