Re: Problem on installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a Toshiba Laptop

John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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