[plug] sysrescue

[Kev]

I think found it.  eth16i has something to do with gigabit nics.  My 
mobo has same, but I disabled it in the CMOS because all of the rest of 
my network is 100mbit.  The only cure I could find was to add the 
"nonet" parameter at boot time.  Crazy thing is, that I assume nonet 
disables ALL networking, but what happened is that the 100mbit network 
and internet connection still work fine.

Kev

Craig Ringer wrote:
> Kev wrote:
> 
>> I have tried to boot from the sysrescue CD (v2.14 and v2.15) but it 
>> hangs at the point of:-
>>
>>     scanning for eth16i...
> 
> 
> eth16i is, according to the source:
> 
> "An ICL EtherTeam 16i and 32 EISA ethernet driver for Linux"
> 
> It can be safely assumed your AMD64 doesn't have one. What's probably 
> happening is that it's probing for the device by poking at some ports, 
> running into something that doens't like to be poked that way, and 
> locking up the system.
> 
> A kernel/hardware guru could probably explain better.
> 
> Your best option is probably to try to suppress probing for this device. 
> The manual doesn't seem to say anything about that, but perhaps there's 
> some info in the pre-boot documentation (accessed by F1 to F<n> keys at 
> boot prompt).
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
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