Re: Problem on installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a Toshiba Laptop
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
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On Thursday 30 June 2005 07:37 am, Gustavo Machado wrote: > I´m trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Toshiba Satellite A20-S207, but the > installation freezes while trying to boot from the CD-ROM. I also tried > disabling ACPI and Verbose mode. > The last lines I got was: > > pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) > atapci0: <AcerLabs Aladdin UDMA100 controller> port 0xeff0-0xefff, 0x376, > 0x170-0x 177,0x3f6, 0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 4.0 on pci0 > atapci0: Reserved 0x10 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xeff0 > ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 > atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1f0 > atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x3f6 A problem with several Toshiba laptops was just recently fixed. You can work around it on 5.3 and 5.4 for now by setting 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' from the loader. 5-stable as of yesterday and HEAD for a couple of weeks now should have this problem fixed. -- John Baldwin <[email protected]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"