From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 14 18:56:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB4FD48 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnebdal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22c.google.com (mail-la0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08696252 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id fr10so920765lab.3 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 11:56:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Qy4pByZ0e8+DgJhJRd7zj/NPpxz+ZUVooG/SMFNzZ3w=; b=uoZh+EE51ZUv+qv5cjj1vOwotL2MiU/dRI8TZOzpF90j9GLxCiSdunOvKsWRofbT2t KeaJjseHxpGBagDC1SN1AROZAmgEc3HBDoXgH6EddXWSd32F68YkPFJFKlSc7pHkeV8W NPKxWubgVD6h17L5qZudni4UxykKkXe/fXGBp5GRGAtogvpcVRd9+8TYVC/vvQqJbgd8 gxeFhpVXmtP0A7VLfGmbDi+faJtbPHziSEi5tFGUK9YoQtIeO4dPnpe6UfQ1eFrN3jTZ sPX7V7u0bCSq0bhZ6DtvYM6wCtIm4HkRUOSilaTaV3bnahXejSnGacCprtpCKGSHD0WV mNnw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.21.74 with SMTP id t10mr16338406lae.52.1368557813967; Tue, 14 May 2013 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.198.168 with HTTP; Tue, 14 May 2013 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130514174135.356c2b47@niklinux.cunt.org> References: <20130514174135.356c2b47@niklinux.cunt.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:56:53 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: VAIO intel i7 Ivy Bridge ultrabook installation fail: Disks not found From: Daniel Nebdal To: Nicolas Alexander Scheibling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:55 -0000 On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Nicolas Alexander Scheibling wrote: > Hello, > > as I am newly writing to these mailing lists, forgive my formal and > content-relative mistakes. > > As it stands now, I would absolutely love installing some 10-CURRENT on > my newly acquired SONY VAIO ultrabook. AFAIK powered by Ivy Bridge ULV, > 1.9 - 2.3 GHz. It has an additional SATA 32 GB Samsung SSD and a > regular 500 GB HDD. It comes with Win 8, cannot stand the Metro. > (although Elan Touchscreen is nice). > > I installed world from my old-beater AMD box on a USB pen drive (i386). > Now it loads the kernel, but won't let me mount any root file systems. > Looks like the platter isn't detected at all. Is that a common problem > with Ivy Bridge systems? Is it a deliberate chipset flaw by Intel as in > *this low-end lappy is not allowed to run anything else than WIN* or > can I do something about it? Forgive me for being at least a power > user, but certainly no device driver developer. :(, all has its limits. > > Thank you so much. I'd jump for joy seeing this thing run BSD, > preferably even from USB, as the turbo boost and the lowish power > consumption are really cool. > > Don't rip my head off for untainted e-mail origin and somesuch. I'm a > lazy bugger, my life circumstances aren't that great and most > Importantly I Dont Have A 5 Million $$ Server Farm. Cheers. Just out of curiosity - have you tried playing with the BIOS settings for USB legacy mode - and for the SATA chipset mode? (If any, ofc.)