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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:42:52 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Adam VanderHook <acidos@bandwidth-junkies.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-BETA7 - kernel hangs on boot - Toshiba Satellite A30
Message-ID:  <20041007213924.M36662@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20041007185605.GG709@regen.bandwidth-junkies.net>
References:  <20041007185605.GG709@regen.bandwidth-junkies.net>

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Adam VanderHook wrote:

> I have a Toshiba Satellite A30.  Today I downloaded 5.3-BETA7 disc 1
> from ftp2.
>
> I have tried normal booting, ACPI disabled, safe mode, and verbose mode.
> ALL of them hang during kernel boot at the same point, expect when ACPI
> is disabled.  I've also tried this with 5.2.1 and 5.1 CDs from BSDmall,
> as well as some other misc. beta/rc CDs from the 5.x series I have
> laying around.
>
> NOTE:  All dmesgs presented are from 5.3-BETA7.  I had to copy them by
> hand.
>
> Booting with ACPI disabled (notice the pir0 entry now, and hangs on pci0
> instead of ata0):
>
> 	http://acidos.bandwidth-junkies.net/dmesg.no-acpi

I have no idea about the hang in ACPI mode, but try setting
hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0 from the loader when booting with ACPI disabled.
All recent Toshiba laptops i've played with recently have needed that.

Gavin



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