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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:56:42 -0700
From:      Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK
Message-ID:  <20020606165642.GA26790@dub.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net>
References:  <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net>

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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

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