From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 14:27:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pirx.hexapodia.org (pirx.hexapodia.org [208.42.114.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9920D37B417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by pirx.hexapodia.org (Postfix, from userid 22448) id BCAEFB404; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:27:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:27:26 -0600 From: Andy Isaacson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vaio r505te: 4.4, 4.5-RC1 "lock up" Message-ID: <20020118162726.A25081@hexapodia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/pgp.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [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