From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 6 2:38:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AD537B401 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19291 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2002 09:38:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO branwen.stty.net) ([216.27.178.239]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Jun 2002 09:38:17 -0000 Received: from branwen.stty.net (jim@localhost.stty.net [127.0.0.1]) by branwen.stty.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g569cHUm068440; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by branwen.stty.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g569cHvE068439; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:38:16 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Bill Swingle Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK Message-ID: <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 at 23:00:54 -0700, Bill Swingle wrote: > Today I was handed a Sony Vaio PCG-R505JSK by my employer. Thinking this > would be simple I popped a 4.5-RELEASE disc in and rebooted. I've tried > a few things including reseting the bios settings, booting with and > without plug N play OS enabled in the bios, booting from floppy, > disabling everythign I didn't need (including pccard) in visualconfig, > but everytime I boot it has the same result, it gets to: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > > and then freezes. > > The machine has some bizarre linux distro on it right now and needless > to say I'm not about to use that. :) > > Anyone have any suggestions? You need to set the following before boot: hw.pcic.intr_path="1" hw.pcic.irq="0" After that it should actually boot. If it doesn't, you know how to reach me :-) - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message