From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 00:20:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD0216A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D325443D55 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:20:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i740KII3054330 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:20:18 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i740KIpE054329; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:20:18 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:20:18 GMT Message-Id: <200408040020.i740KIpE054329@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: i386/63776: FreeBSD 5.x freezes during boot on a toshiba p25 s509 series X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:20:20 -0000 The following reply was made to PR i386/63776; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: i386/63776: FreeBSD 5.x freezes during boot on a toshiba p25 s509 series Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:18:47 +0300 [-- Adding to the audit trail the text of misfiled problem report i386/69776 --] Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:46:50 -0400 From: "Systems Admnistrator" I have tried the solution you mentioned without any luck using fresh disks and new 5.2.1 iso's from ftp5,ftp6 and ftp13.freebsd.net . I have spent many years using FreeBSD and successfully deploying it on a variety of platforms and have tried just about every possible solution using various boot options without any success. I would like to note that a colleague of mine had a similar problem with the a Toshiba p20 and that the solution mentioned by Gary worked for him with limited success. He was able to install FreeBSD but after 5 successful subsequent boots the same problem occurred and even adding set hw.pci.allow_unsupportable_io_range="1" to a boot config didn't help. (message should have read as follow) On subsequent attempts to boot off the disks afterwards he managed to achieve a successful boot to the installer on 1 out of every 5 tries Very Odd no ? I'm at a loss myself . If it's any consolation all versions of sunOS from 5.6 to current fail due to problems with the Toshiba cardbus as well. So at this point it's fair to say this Bug still exists and still has not been fixed, nor is there an effective workaround.