Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:46:31 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.3-RC1 attempt with a Toshiba Libretto 70CT failed, 4.10 OK Message-ID: <200410270046.i9R0kV0K012290@laps.jhs.private>
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freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: shige@FreeBSD.ORG (Maintainer of ports/sysutils/libretto-config who may have libretto tips ? ) Here's one more 5.3-RC-1 test - failed - 4.10 works, One might say it's operator error :-) But 4.10 is more tolerant of this tired installer... I've been trying 5.3-RC1 with a Toshiba Libretto 70CT (large jacket pocket size) It gets further than 5.2.1-RELEASE, as 5.2.1 hangs quickly after first floppy after trying to fetch modules off floppy with "No floppy devices found". ( I've seen similar floppy driver problems before, I installed FreeBSD years ago on some Libretto, not this one - it's the horrible non PC compatible Toshiba that stops the floppy working like a normal PC at first opportunity (I can't remember the more formally correct description of Toshiba problem. I do not like Toshibas, No BIOS when you push DEL, or any other key sequence, either for a real bios, just some nasty subset of a BIOS on some, eg http://berklix.com/~jhs/hw/toshiba/s5100-603/ ) 5.3-RC1 gets much further than 5.2.1 on this libretto: it loads Boot, Kern1, Kern2, then Boot, goes through Fdsisk & disklabel, then (as there's only 1 pcmcia slot, & I cant even with a device rescan get it to see an ethernet pcmcia or pcmcia cdrom card) ... I try to do ftp install, using PLIP or SLIP ... & find it doesnt see either of the 2 serials (I guess one is mouse) or the parallel port, as well as not recognising the fresh plugged in & rescanned 3C589C pcmcia ethernet (that works well on other FreeBSD boxes) I've checked with the Win95 Toshiba HDSetup.exe (all you get instead of a real BIOS, & runs under hated MS), but the parallal port seems OK, set to ECP. Hdsetup.exe allows me no access to sio so I guess theyre OK. I'm not desperate enough to do a floppy install, & won't ever be, I guess I need to try eg some irq loader.conf magic, maybe tomorrow, 4.10 is installing now, it's going like a breeze, I even swapped card in pcmcia slot, ether recognized no problem, ftp logged in & loading (except Very slow, I have some intermittent local ethernet problem & or possibly a libretto/ether problem nothing to do with 5.3. - Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com Mail Ascii; Html deleted as Spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
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