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Date:      Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:00:06 -0600
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        stepahne B <isom@nerim.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: no installation possible on sony qr10
Message-ID:  <20011226160006.Q91594@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <004101c18e58$8b4a8eb0$640aa8c0@terre>; from isom@nerim.net on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:08PM %2B0100
References:  <004101c18e58$8b4a8eb0$640aa8c0@terre>

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* stepahne B <isom@nerim.net> [011226 15:56] wrote:
> Hello,
> today, i wrote a little message about my difficulties to install freebsd on
> my
> mobile sony vaio qr10...I ve forgoten to say that i can insatll linux
> mandrake and red hat without problem (sorry for linux but i love freebsd so
> much)...i think it's not an unix problem but may be a bios problem...
> i need help to resolve that...my knowledge about that is very poor....
> 
> thanks stephane bourquin
> 
> my last message was :
> "I got a VAIO qr10 on which I would like to install FreeBSD. The
> machine comes without a floppy drive and I can only boot from the
> CDROM. When booting the 4.4-install CD the machine hard locks just
> after "ppc0: parallel port not found"
> I tried to disable all devices in the user config to no avail. When
> booting with the -v option the last messages are
>   bios geometries
>   isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
>   0:03fefe3f 0..1022=1023 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
>   0 accounted for
>   Device configuration finished.
>   device combination doesnt support shared irq0
>   intr_connect(irq0) failed, result=-1
>   bpf: lo0 attached
>   bpf: sl0 attached
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help you could offer"

Does it just lockup at this point?  Does the disk probe?  what
exactly are you disabling?  Maybe you're disabling too much?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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