From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 26 14: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1788937B427 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:00:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 9ABA481D01; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:00:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:00:06 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: stepahne B Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: no installation possible on sony qr10 Message-ID: <20011226160006.Q91594@elvis.mu.org> References: <004101c18e58$8b4a8eb0$640aa8c0@terre> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004101c18e58$8b4a8eb0$640aa8c0@terre>; from isom@nerim.net on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:08PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * stepahne B [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.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message