Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Curry" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.13 freeze at PCI probing | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:31:45 -0500 (EST) |
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Months-old thread returning here...
Martin Mares writes the following: > >Hello! >> On power cycling it, I repeatedly got a hard freeze right after "PCI: Probing >> PCI hardware". Out of about 8 boot attempts, 2 went through perfectly, the >> rest would just say "Probing PCI hardware" and then die completely. >> >> Here's what a dmesg looks like after the last (successful) boot. From my >> memory of the crash screens, when it froze it didn't have second of the two >> big tables right before the PCI probing message (IRQ to pin mappings) >> >> How should I attack this problem if it comes up again? > > Please try booting with "pci=nobios" or "pci=conf1".
That machine just had its next reboot, and pci=nobios seems to do the trick. Would you mind explaining why? Is it likely a bug in the BIOS, an error in the configuration, or something else?
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