* rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020313 00:33]:
> I have a Sony Vaio FX290.
> 
> I know that hanging at the root mount in not uncommon.  What is bizarre
> is that my laptop was running -stable and a make world was done not too
> long ago.  It never hung.  Then I crashed my system (due to my own
> stupidity) and had to reinstall 4.5.  The iso disks would all hang at
> the root mount.  Then I took a freshly cvsup'd source from my other
> machine and installed it in the laptop after booting from a 4.1 iso. 
> After makeworld it hung also at the root mount.
> 
> I was very fortunate to find in the list archives the magic commands
> that I put into loader.conf:
> 
> 
> hw.pcic.intr_path=1
> hw.pcic.irq=0
> 
> Now it boots OK, but I still can't figure out why I didn't need this
> before?  Rob.

This is a PCMCIA harddrive is it? Possibly that's the reason?
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