From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 22:55:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3600A16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bariatricsupportcenter.com (unknown [208.187.136.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D2643D39 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (s187183.ap.plala.or.jp [220.109.187.183]) 38BB4252EA8 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:55:18 -0700 (MST) From: Chris Miller To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:55:24 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403181555.24509.chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com> Subject: Toshiba P25-S609 Install problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:55:56 -0000 For the benefit of anyone else trying to figure this out and looking through the archives I am posting how to fix the problem. When trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Toshiba P25-S609 Laptop the install would hang at the following location: cbb0: at device 4.0 on pci2 In verbose mode I would get an extra line with the following: pcib2: device cbb0 requested decoded memory range 0xc2000000-0xc20fffff Following the hint from Norton found here: http://aproductofsociety.org/toshiba_p25.html I found the reference to the hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_ranges=1 in the manual here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-sysctl.html#SYSCTL-READONLY You can activate this on the install by doing the following: 1) Select option number 6 (Escape to loader prompt) at the selection menu for the install. 2) Enter the following at the OK prompt: set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 then press enter. (You will note there are no quotes around the 1 as shown on Norton's page. For some reason it didn't want to work for me with quotes. Maybe I was using single quotes and they should have been double, I don't know, what I do know is that it works without them.) 3) Type boot and press enter. Magic, you made it past the spot that was driving you crazy :D -Chris