miata hangs on boot with 5.3-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso image

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +0200, José M. Fandiño wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While testing BETA2 the box hangs at xl0 detection.
> 
> Below I attach boot output from 5.3-BETA2 and if you
> read the next boot you will see a normal (and successful)
> boot with 5.2.1-RELEASE.
> 
> Any idea about the problem? 
> (if you need some other info don't hesitate to request it)

Sound similar to PHK's AS1000A story - and this box has no EISA at all!
But it also has no gap in PCI bus numbering and just hangs instead of
traping.
I would bet that this case has the same cause.
Can you produce a boot -v output please?

[...]
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
[...]
> xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x8100-0x817f mem 0x81031000-0x8103107f irq 12 at device 8.0 on pci1
> miibus1: <MII bus> on xl0
> xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus1
> xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:1a:20:1c
> xl0: interrupting at CIA irq 12
> xl0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

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