hello, thanks to everyone who responded for your help.
"disable iic*" from "boot -c" worked. but i had to "disable piixpm*" from "config -e" to make it permanent. for some reason doing "disable iic*" in "config -e" and rebooting still froze the machine. i am not sure what the difference is between changes made during "boot -c" and those made in boot_config. i was wondering why lock ups like this during device probe if a device is not supported are considered acceptable? is it technically not feasible to make it just report the fact that the device is not recognised and go on? thanks konstantin 2006/5/17, akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hello, > > just installed 3.9 release on my pentium II machine. installation seemed > to go fine, but now it hangs during boot. it starts to show dmesg text and > freezes right after the line saying > > iic0 at piixpm0 > > even the keyboard is dead... > > i am new. please help. if necessary i will provide the system specs, etc. > > konstantin
