> I had a machine running 2.2.13 with a 32 day uptime freeze suddenly. The
> ethernet switch said it was still active, but it wasn't pingable. Keyboard
> was dead.
>
> On power cycling it, I repeatedly got a hard freeze right after "PCI: Probing
> PCI hardware". Out of about 8 boot attempts, 2 went through perfectly, the
> rest would just say "Probing PCI hardware" and then die completely.
>
> Here's what a dmesg looks like after the last (successful) boot. From my
> memory of the crash screens, when it froze it didn't have second of the two
> big tables right before the PCI probing message (IRQ to pin mappings)
>
> How should I attack this problem if it comes up again?
Please try booting with "pci=nobios" or "pci=conf1".
Have a nice fortnight
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