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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:08:11 -0700
From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems getting STABLE running on a VAIO 505TL
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 at 15:06:11 -0700, George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
>    I have a VAIO 505TL that I'm trying to get STABLE onto.  What I do
> is install from 4.3 CDROM which goes quite well, the PCMCIA card for
> the CDROM is recognized and used and things work OK. I then do
> 
> cvsup
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> reboot
> 
> I can then not boot because the kernel hangs after the line
> about ad0: (the disk).  I suspect this of being a kernel configuration
> problem.  What I need to know is:
> 
> 1) How can I find out what the kernel that got installed by 4.3 looked
> like.  I figure it's the fact that I'm using GENERIC that's causing
> the issue but without a way to find out the kernel config I'm going to
> always have this problem and I don't want to do this over and over and
> over again.
> 
> 2) If anyone has gotten this done on this or a similar (recent) Sony
> laptop.

You need to add the following to /boot/loader.conf:

hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
hw.pcic.irq="0"

That makes my R505TE bootable :-)

- jim

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jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org>              tech writer | iXsystems, Inc.
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