Re: PCI fail on bootup

Flippie Spies (phs@paradigm-sa.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:54:48 +0200 (SAT)


On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 henning@Prio.no wrote:

|-->Hello all!
|-->
|-->I know this message might be a bit misplaced, but I'll try it anyway. I've
|-->just setup a second Linux machine here, or at least the HW part of it. Now
|-->I'm trying to boot off the ethernet boot disk, and it hangs on lance.c: PCI
|-->Bios is present, checking for devices... I have two simple PCI devices in the
|-->computer, namely an S3 graphics card and the onboard HDD/FDD controller
|-->circuitry.
|-->
|-->Could anybody give me a hint on how to fix this, or eventually just bypass
|-->it? Thanx!
|-->
|-->btw - this is Slackware96, kernel 2.0.0.
|-->
|-->Henning Kilset Pedersen
|-->
|-->--------------------------------------------------------------------
|-->Henning Kilset Pedersen
|-->Network Administrator, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
|-->email:henning@prio.no http://www.communique.no/prio/
|-->--------------------------------------------------------------------
|-->

Get 2.1.15
That might work.

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