From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 7 21:49: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3567614ED0 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id VAA10113; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:48:04 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:48:03 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: Jacques Vidrine Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hang at probing devices screen on VAIO505 In-Reply-To: <19991107231958.B8CBA1D7A@bone.nectar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: n@nectar.com,mike@smith.net.au,freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to all. I will do that. I was seriously worried that I might have to install Linux. -Kip On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message