I appreciate the responses, but something interesting happend. I'll
comment on Brian's suggestions first:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Morgan,
What happens when you disable the Realtek embedded Ethernet controller in
the BIOS?
Is the embedded sound card enabled or disabled?
What about other devices that use IRQ's that can be disabled in the BIOS
such as COM, LPT, USB ports?
Brian Lawrence
Well there's not a lot for me to disable in this particular system's
BIOS. I did try it with 2.1, after having disabled IRDA, Parallel, and
Serial ports.
I'd disable ethernet too, but that kind of makes our excercise pointless.
It would be nice if BSD let us do what we can do in Linux, such as
"linux nousb noacpi" at the boot prompt. Maybe BSD can, but the version
used in g4u does not permit this feature to save space?
But anyway, here's the deal:
I had stated in my earlier email that I had tried both 2.1 and 1.17, and
that both halted at the same point.
Actually 1.17 works!
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piixide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
piixide0: secondary channel interrupring at irq 15
atabus1 at piixide0 channel 1
vendor 0x8086 product 0x2483 (SMBus serial bus revision 0x01) at pci0
dev 31 function 3 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x2485 (audio multimedia revision 0x01) at pci0
dev 31 function 5 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
[system halts at this point]
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Here's the deal... 1.17 pauses for about 20 seconds at this same spot on
this hardware, but then completes the boot process. I am uploading an
image as I write this.
I think that I was so frustrated with my laptop, that I simply was not
patient enough. I had let 2.1 sit there overnight, it was stuck, so when
I saw 1.17 pause, I just figured it had halted, so I wrote it off.
But no, I tried it one more time on a lark, and spaced off for a bit...
and it came up to the regular g4u prompt! Go figure... but there's
something in v2.1 that my Panasonic product apparently doesn't like.
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