From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 6 9:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B56637B408 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28592 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jun 2002 16:56:42 -0000 Date: 6 Jun 2002 09:56:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:56:42 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK Message-ID: <20020606165642.GA26790@dub.net> References: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toxic.magnesium.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 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 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:38:16AM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > 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: > >=20 > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > >=20 > > and then freezes.=20 > >=20 > > The machine has some bizarre linux distro on it right now and needless > > to say I'm not about to use that. :) > >=20 > > Anyone have any suggestions? >=20 > You need to set the following before boot: >=20 > hw.pcic.intr_path=3D"1" > hw.pcic.irq=3D"0" >=20 > After that it should actually boot. If it doesn't, you know how to > reach me :-) That was the fix I was looking for. Thanks! Now to figure out why I can boot from the cdrom but after booting, FreeBSD doesnt see it... -Bill --=20 -=3D| Bill Swingle - -=3D| Every message PGP signed -=3D| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 -=3D| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso= =20 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/5RJUgAclY4JAiMRAlIYAJ49o6l1lmrKrLs9Kc9EHsvoXabEIgCdHzgU OQHicLeSxm6KX1dv7c4WRB4= =KCOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message