Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:38:16 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK Message-ID: <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> In-Reply-To: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> References: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net>
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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
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