Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 17:19:58 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hang at probing devices screen on VAIO505 Message-ID: <19991107231958.B8CBA1D7A@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <199911071936.LAA13471@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199911071936.LAA13471@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 7 November 1999 at 11:36, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote: > Turn off the 'memory stick' device in the BIOS setup screen. It > appears that on those machines it either lookes like an IDE device, or > at least lives in that address range, and gets our probes all in a tizz. Actually sysinstall gets confused when it tries to read its disklabel (which must fail, because there is no memory card in the slot). I think this is brain damage in the VAIO -- it is as if the memory card slot is not a removable device ... But yes, as Mike says, the work around is to disable it during the install. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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