Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:59:38 -0800 From: "Sean Noonan" <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> To: "Jolly Roger" <jolly.roger@home.com>, "'freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sony VAIO PCG-R505JSP & FreeBSD 4.4 CD Image Message-ID: <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMKEGBEIAA.snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c1667c$f66fbb60$4100a8c0@compuspec.net>
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Roger, Good luck. I sent basically the same message a few days ago to -questions and didn't get a single reply (except for one guy with a Thinkpad that said "me too". My problem was slightly different: 4.4 hangs just as it's mounting the root partition, just like yours, and does so when booting from either CD or from USB floppy. 4.3, on the other hand, doesn't hang but doesn't recognize my NIC either (so I can't cvsup to latest which I think may fix the problem). NIC is Intel PRO 100/VE. I guess I'll wait until 5.0-STABLE and try again. In the meantime, I've installed Linux Mandrake 8.1. It works. Recognizes everything except the 16MB ATI Radeon mobile graphics card and the "jogger". It substitutes a generic SVGA driver for the ATI card instead, but at least it works. I even hear that the "jogger" will be supported by Mandrake soon. I'd have prefered FreeBSD to Mandrake by 100 to 1, but I'm no device driver writer :-( Oh, BTW, my VAIO model is slighly different than yours, a PCG-GR250P. But exact same symptoms. If you get it working please share the secret with me... Thanks, Sean. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jolly Roger Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:39 PM To: 'freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org'; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sony VAIO PCG-R505JSP & FreeBSD 4.4 CD Image Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD from CD using the 4.4 CD Image. It boots OK and lets me into the HW Config screen. Here (I've tried several combinations) I disable all the SCSI stuff and all the Network Stuff. When I continue, the installation just hangs. I have tried the 4.3 CD and this gets past the point where the 4.4 CD Hangs, but when it tried to do the actual install it is unable to find the CD. With the 4.4 Install doing a boot -v, I get the output shown below. (Note: The output has been hand typed, not a cut & paste, so it could have a Typo...) ata0-master: success setting UDMA5 on Intel chip Creating DISK ad0 ad0: <TOSHIBA MK3017GAS/A6.02 C> ATA-5 disk at ata0-master ad0: 28615MB (58605120 sectors), 58140 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ado: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA100 ado: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=5 cblid=1 ado: 28615MB <TOSHIBA MK3017GAS> [58140/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c md0: invalid primary partition table: no magic start_init: trying /sbin/init start_init: trying /sbin/oinit start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak start_init: trying stand/sysinstall I would be grateful for any suggestions that I may try... Thanks, Roger. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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