A good way to get non-working machines to work, is to offer it to
someone who can make it work.

The wrong way is to dangle it as a reward for whoever makes it work,
when they don't have the hardware.  If they had the hardware, they'd
make it work.  If they had the hardware, maybe they don't want another.

> On 16-05-12 18:48, Benny Lofgren wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity I'd like to see dmesg:s on the machine to see what
> > works and what doesn't. It would probably also make it easier for those
> > thinking about taking up the offer to assess its feasibility.
> 
> In general a good question, but since the Intel i350 is not supported
> yet and the interrupt routing seems a mess this is not so appropriate.
> 
> Boot from the (i386) install CD gives:
> 
> ioapic0 at ...
> ioapic1 at ...
> acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0x0...0, bus, 0-255
> panic: pci_make_tag: bad request
> 
> 
> 'boot -c' with 'disable acpi' "works".
> 
> 
> Booting from AMD-64 gives about the same chaos.
> 
> +++chefren

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