From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 19:42:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28E416A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:42:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292F643D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:42:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (Ximalas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7QJfxQ2060669; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:42:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j7QJfxcg060666; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:41:59 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: Brian Doherty In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050826211735.E58020@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Latitude D510 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:42:01 -0000 On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:23+0100, Brian Doherty wrote: > I have a dell Latitude D510 with the mist recent BIOS installed. > I have win XP factory installed, boots fine. > I have tried installing the following on a partition: I have the same model and experienced the very same problem a couple of weeks ago. John Nielsen suggested I should try booting 5.2.1 but I haven't had any time to do so. The problem as it was explained to me, is related to FireWire. If you could boot the laptop with a custom kernel without any FireWire support I guess you might succeed. In the good old days you could disable in the kernel all the drivers you didn't need, but AFAIK the kernel configuration utility in the install kernel of today's version of FreeBSD is not nearly as good as it was in the old days. Even further, perhaps someone will look into the matter, and make FireWire support optional at boot time. I really miss the old kernel configuration utility... *sigh* Hey guys, put it back into shape! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 4.8-S & Pine 4.55