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From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (Shawn Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ISA strayintr 7
Date: 11 Jan 1994 16:29:48 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <1994Jan11.161238.18213@picker.com>,
Rob Logan <rob@ct.picker.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to install freebsd from the cdrom and I'm getting
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>ISA strayintr 7
>
>right after /386bsd is loaded... I removed EVERYTHING from my system
>so I only have the bt445s and a et4000 vga card... no ethermet, sound
>or even lpd and com ports.

I had this problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD for the longest time.
It was pretty frustrating cause I really couldn't get anyone to help
me.  I recently switched back to FreeBSD 1.0r, and ran into a great 
document that explained this to me.  Basically, if you have an interrupt
driven printer card, you don't want to use the lpa driver that the FreeBSD
generic kernel detects.  You want to change the kernel config to use the
lpt driver.  Once I did this, I haven't had a problem with strayintr 7's.

Try it and see if it works for you.

Shawn