Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:27:26 -0600 From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vaio r505te: 4.4, 4.5-RC1 "lock up" Message-ID: <20020118162726.A25081@hexapodia.org>
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So I have 3 FreeBSD installation CD-ROMs: 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5-RC1 (actually just the boot floppy burned on a CDRW in El Torrito format). I'm attempting to install on my snazzy new laptop, a Sony Vaio R505TE with external CD-ROM attached via PCMCIA. 4.3 installs just fine. 4.4 and 4.5-RC1 fail in a very odd manner: the kernel appears to boot just fine, but no userland output makes it to the console. The last thing I see when booting off the 4.4 CD-ROM is ad0: 14307MB <IBJ-DJSA-220> [29070/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c (photo at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/fbsd44.jpg, dmesg from 4.3 at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/dmesg.txt) This machine has an Intel 815 chipset, which I suspect to be the problem. I previously had 4.3 installed and performed an upgrade to 4.4, and had a similar problem where userland output didn't get to the console, but for some reason I convinced myself that the machine wasn't hung -- just not outputting to console. (I forget why I thought this.) ISTR that it would boot and I could log in over the network, but I could be wrong. Any suggestions for how to get past this point? thanks -andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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