From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 16:08:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BD916A421 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:08:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8BA43D49 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:08:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAEGCxRh070714; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:12:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id jAEGCxlx070713; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:12:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:12:59 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Peter Clutton Message-ID: <20051114161259.GA69914@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Peter Clutton , Derek Tracy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <9999810b0511130559g1cb28d38ie3eeb561d8ccfe46@mail.gmail.com> <57416b300511131402o2a9cad97ic4cf3c1647808b3a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57416b300511131402o2a9cad97ic4cf3c1647808b3a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL, J_CHICKENPOX_65 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on ei.bzerk.org Cc: Derek Tracy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:08:35 -0000 On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:02:52AM +1100, Peter Clutton typed: > On 11/14/05, Derek Tracy wrote: > > I have finally decided to ditch Gentoo for FreeBSD especially since the new > > release is out now, but I have ran into a huge problem. > > Upon trying to boot the install CD (I have tried both the bootonly and > > official cd1) I get to sysinstall but when I try and partition the disks it > > tells me it can not find any of the disks. I have been doing some research > > on this and a few people were able to install the 5.4 release (I have not > > Well I'm afraid I can only make a similar comment. I have FreeBSD 5.4 > release running smoothly on my Vaio. I wouldn't imagine the > device.hints can help you, it sounds like the hardware isn't > compatible or something and it can't see it. Exactly what is the > laptop - make/model/specs. What hard drive, and what bus is it > attached to? Are there any error messages on the emergency holographic > shell, i think you can check with alt-F4. /me too. I finally settled for 5.4-RELEASE on my Vaio VGN-S5M/S. My quess from the below snippet of dmesg is that there's something fishy about the second controller (where the disk is attached) that is tolerated by 5.4's ata driver, but not by 6.0's atapci0: port 0x1880-0x188f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: port 0x18a0-0x18af,0x1894-0x1897,0x18b0-0x18b7,0x18b8-0x18bb,0x18c0-0x18c7 irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 acd0: DVDR at ata0-master PIO4 Interrupt storm detected on "irq18: atapci1"; throttling interrupt source ad4: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 I'm planning to file a PR on this, but need to do some more research first. Ruben