From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 21:30:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F1F1065670 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luis.henrix@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DD58FC23 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so201834eyd.7 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:30:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=G/9g3S4nt4qX9emCpQ2fKQuJ5g/691G8CKU8ajwkzjg=; b=WThhr3I2eQkvETggjQL3kUjVFRbWfMHEOTIxWc7EGVYAdKrJpoPxp6gbFvXTGOsY6M XlIWkO8sg4YxiLdZiAeqfxJsM+EyHhbdL87ulcjWf5Aw43XW67VArzDUU7DBVxOKESKX YB4qnanj6f8e1l7PtYFyGFg2ObneunLlH7Kwc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=xkLkmAWCPHqJN+pP7mXNxeQGRyjuJcMPj8IWMwxqOeFLeW6AR1IxyF+slb8ZUyYZfF 1NJSnGGXWPmZWsHEMWWtVFKwIjtmCd76k5H5bE0pLakVcBFTGP/JhAkLcoBg9+rvQdYt 0VhCaWAO+5XdYNdbFeVZZFSlz7Z+a2cdpZFos= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.89.146 with SMTP id c18mr153181wef.84.1249506090068; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:01:30 +0100 Message-ID: <5b2efe7c0908051401w62088d7en1af537741bd24f89@mail.gmail.com> From: Miguel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems with FreeBSD installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:30:05 -0000 Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. I started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: "No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller..." Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on the FreeBSD world). I get lines such as: atapci0: [...] atapci0: [ITHREAD] atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: on atapci0 ata5: [ITHREAD] [...] atapci1: [...] ata0: on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] [...] (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to some URL if needed.) So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: acpi0_check: nexus0 attached acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present ... in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I have a Toshiba Satellite A210). Anyway, I decided to try a more recent version of FreeBSD and downloaded 8.0-CURRENT-200906-amd64-disc1.iso which was the most recent snapshot for my Turion64 processor. Tried to boot it but this time the installation just freeze before the install application event starts. Last log lines are: acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preload image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80fd8660 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop. I am, of course, available to provide any additional information you might need to debug the issue. Thanks! -- Miguel