Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

George Hartzell wrote:

>George Hartzell writes:
> > 
> > I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
> > laptop.
> > 
> > I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
> > w/out acpi, and safe.  Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
> > same message (see below), although it followed a different driver
> > depending on how it was booted.
> > 
> > Then I installed 4.7 (since I had the CD), cvsup-ed my repository, and
> > cvs up'ed /usr/src to the 5-current.  I followed the section on moving
> > from 4 to 5-current in UPDATING to build the world, etc....  I had to
> > work around a bit of previously reported 4.7/5 weirdness in
> > /usr/include, but it went w/out any trouble.
> > 
> > When I reached the point where I was supposed to boot the new kernel
> > in single user mode, the 5-current kernel paniced:
> > 
> >   miibus0: <MII bux> in fxp0
> >   inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> >   inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> >   
> >   
> >   
> >   Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> >   cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> >   fault virtual address	= 0x63696d20
> >   fault code		= supervisor write, page not present
> >   instruction pointer	= 0x8:0xc0659df3
> >   stack pointer		= 0x10:0xc0c217ac
> >   frame pointer		= 0x10:0xc0c217cc
> >   code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> >   			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> >   processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> >   current process		= 0 (swapper)
> >   kernel: type 12 trap, code=0
> >   Stopped at	ithread_add_handler+0x163:	movl	%ebx,0(%eax)
> >   db>
> > 
> > I've seen several similar reports in the archives for late last
> > summer.  The general answer seemed to be that people were having
> > hardware trouble.  I don't think that is the case in my case, unless
> > -current is doing something very strange, since the same machine runs
> > well enough under 4.7 to buildworld and buildkernel, and the same
> > hardware has been running Suse and Win2000.
> > 
> > How can I help get this solved?
>
>It turns out that the 5.0 release CD also boots successfully, so it
>seems to be something that's happened in -current since then.
>
>Help?
>
>g.
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>
I have a GRX570, the problem can be fixed by adding the following to 
your device.hints

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

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