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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium PCI problem?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:49:00 GMT
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root@xwing.wcape.gov.za (Sean White) writes:

>  The bus probe went fine right up to the point where it was supposed
> to probe the PCI bus. It didn't. Just paniced about not being able
> to mount the root partition and gave me a message about rebooting in
> 15 seconds.

Can you provide us with the boot messages?

(Hint: hook another computer onto the first serial port, running
kermit with logging to a file.  Then enter -h at the boot prompt to
use the serial console.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)