Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:13:13 +0900 From: Chris Miller <chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Toshiba P25-S609 Install problems Message-ID: <200403190013.13634.chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com> In-Reply-To: <200403181555.24509.chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com> References: <200403181555.24509.chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com>
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Well I spoke too soon. This worked great for the install. I got everything up and running, got X running with the nvidia drivers and everything. I was feeling pretty good considering this was really my first time playing with FreeBSD. I rebooted the machine about 3 times each time entering the same command to get the machine booted. (Since I kept forgetting to set it in the config file so I wouldn't need to do it by hand.) Then on about the 4th reboot it stopped working. The only thing that I changed between the time that it worked and the time that it didn't was a couple of network routes that were only changed in memory so they wouldn't have affected anything on the next boot anyway. I now can't get the system to boot past the cbb0: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2 line no matter what I do. If anyone has any ideas on what to do I'd love to hear them. I would really like to look at converting my company servers over to FreeBSD, but until I am really comfortable with the system I don't want to do it. And to get comfortable with it I need my main personal computer to be running it. That would be this laptop. Thanks in advance, Chris On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:55 pm, Chris Miller wrote: > 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: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> 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-sysc >tl.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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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