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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Stuck start of Installation
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:37:40 -0400
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In article <Nb_Mc.14743$QO.13857@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>I had a similar problem just the other night.  It turned out that
>if I removed the Ethernet card, everything was happy.

I saw something like this just yesterday on an Intel 440BX system.

If the BIOS was set to "Plug and Play OS: Yes", the kernel hung soon
after entry, but if I set it to "No" it continued, and the first thing
it printed that it hadn't when it was hanging was the detection of the
Ethernet card (I think it was an Etherlink III).

What's the "right" value for that BIOS setting?

Dave Eckhardt