From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 7 15:20:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E31150AB for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.0.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29A92435A6; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:18:55 -0600 (CST) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CBA1D7A; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:19:58 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: mlist/freebsd/stable X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199911071936.LAA13471@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199911071936.LAA13471@dingo.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: hang at probing devices screen on VAIO505 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 17:19:58 -0600 Message-Id: <19991107231958.B8CBA1D7A@bone.nectar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 November 1999 at 11:36, Mike Smith 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