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From: rim@bme.ri.ccf.org (Robert M. Cothren)
Subject: ISA strayintr 7 and hang
Message-ID: <RIM.93Dec25235747@scooby.bme.ri.ccf.org>
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Sender: rim@bme.ri.ccf.org (Robert M. Cothren)
Organization: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 04:57:47 GMT

Well, I finally decided to take the plunge.  After watching these news
groups for a while and reading the FAQs, I selected NetBSD 0.9 as a
first version to try.

I set up my disk, installed a boot manager and tested it, and booted
the kernal copy (kc-aha09.fs) and installation file system
(inst1-09.fs) floppies -- well, almost.  After probing my hardware,
and properly finding everything (I think), I get an "ISA strayintr 7"
message and everything stops.  I have tried disabling internal and
external caches, disabling BIOS shadowing, and even disabled the LPT
on irq 7, but nothing changes.  I vaguely remember this problem being
discussed before, but did not remember boot problems associated with
it, and therefore do not remember the result.

I am running a 66MHz 486DX2 with an Ultrastor Ultra 34 VESA localbus
SCSI, and booting from a 1.44MB.  There is a ATI Ultra Pro VESA
localbus video, 1.2MB floppy, 2 16450 (on mother board) and 2 16550A
(on an adaptor) com ports (no shared interupts), and an lpt (on mother
board) installed.

Can someone help me?  Thanks.

-- 
----Robert M. Cothren, PhD--------------------------rim@bme.ri.ccf.org----
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    The Cleveland Clinic Foundation                voice: 216 445-9305
----Cleveland, Ohio----------------------------------fax: 216 444-9198----