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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!fms From: fms@wam.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DELL Latitude XPi Laptop.. Can't install. Date: 18 Mar 1996 23:51:18 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ikstm$n6o@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <314B1A05.41C67EA6@cosmic.org> <4ig5na$49n@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <314BFBC2.41C67EA6@cosmic.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac6.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Joe Beiter (jwb@cosmic.org) wrote: : Yes I disabled all unnecessary devices and got rid of all conflicts. : This is what gets displayed at hang time: : ------------ : wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa : wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DPRA-21215> : wd0: 1160MB (2376864 sectors), 2358 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S : ------------ : then it sits there for about 5 minutes and then the screen blacks out. It may be doing the right thing by sitting there: this often happens when testing for a second EIDE controler [wdc1]. Blacking out is something new though: I haven't seen that. Try to boot from a floppy. Disable everything, including the disk controllers. Then add drivers one by one and see what happens. Marat