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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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: > > > > 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 :-) 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 -- -=| Bill Swingle - <unfurl@(dub.net|freebsd.org)> -=| Every message PGP signed -=| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/5RJUgAclY4JAiMRAlIYAJ49o6l1lmrKrLs9Kc9EHsvoXabEIgCdHzgU OQHicLeSxm6KX1dv7c4WRB4= =KCOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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