Bug: DragonFly 1.6.0 Bug

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Fri, January 5, 2007 5:43 pm, Rob Lewis wrote:
> Problem:
> Using the 1.6.0 release ISO, booting with default mode will result in
> kernel load black screen. Differnt devices are shown as being loaded,
> freezes and does nothing (no error) at a certain point. I cannot do
> anything with the OS after this.
[snip]
> Manufactor: Gateway 2000
> Model: Solo 9100
> Processor: Intel 166mhz with MMX.
> Ram: 64 Megs

This sounds like an older laptop - models of this age often had
custom/strange hardware, so it may be some hardware that nobody's
encountered before.  Especially since it appears to be failing around the
parallel port probe.  You may want to check the various BSD hardware
compatibility lists (mostly FreeBSD) to see if anyone else has tried a BSD
flavor out on this hardware.