Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:18:29 -0800 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vaio r505te: 4.4, 4.5-RC1 "lock up" Message-ID: <20020119021829.GA54938@helios.dub.net> In-Reply-To: <20020118162726.A25081@hexapodia.org> References: <20020118162726.A25081@hexapodia.org>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 at 16:27:26 -0600, Andy Isaacson wrote: > So I have 3 FreeBSD installation CD-ROMs: 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5-RC1 > (actually just the boot floppy burned on a CDRW in El Torrito format). > I'm attempting to install on my snazzy new laptop, a Sony Vaio R505TE > with external CD-ROM attached via PCMCIA. > > 4.3 installs just fine. > > 4.4 and 4.5-RC1 fail in a very odd manner: the kernel appears to boot > just fine, but no userland output makes it to the console. The last > thing I see when booting off the 4.4 CD-ROM is > > ad0: 14307MB <IBJ-DJSA-220> [29070/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > > (photo at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/fbsd44.jpg, dmesg from > 4.3 at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/dmesg.txt) > > This machine has an Intel 815 chipset, which I suspect to be the > problem. > > I previously had 4.3 installed and performed an upgrade to 4.4, and > had a similar problem where userland output didn't get to the console, > but for some reason I convinced myself that the machine wasn't hung -- > just not outputting to console. (I forget why I thought this.) ISTR > that it would boot and I could log in over the network, but I could be > wrong. > > Any suggestions for how to get past this point? Yes, look at the -mobile archive, where this has been discussed. The problem has nothing to do with the i815 chipset, it's due to the pccard changes that went into 4.4-R. You can get around it by adding the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.pcic.intr_path="1" hw.pcic.irq="0" You can also set it at the boot prompt when you boot up. -- jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org> http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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