Gateway and FreeBSD

[Sourabh Ladha]

Thanks for the email Mike. I tried doing what you had suggested but didn't
have any luck. I get stuck at the same place and the machine freezes.

SOS: What else could I do?

Waiting for a reply,

Sourabh


On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mike Dean wrote:

> * Sourabh Ladha <ladha at mail.eecis.udel.edu> [2003-05-05 22:56]:
> >   I was trying to get FreeBSD 5.0 Release on my just bought Gateway Laptop
> > (400x). unfortunately it seems there are lot of broken sides...One of the
> > hardware that I could not find support was for my IDE controller
> > (Intel 82801CAM):
>
> > * pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at driver 31.3 (no driver attached)
> > * pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
>
> > Unfortunately, I just can't proceed from this.
>
> It would be nice to know exactly what you're seeing from this.  However,
> I did have some significant problems with my Gateway 450L about at this
> point when I was trying to install, so I'll go out on a limb and
> speculate that this is the same problem (a page fault in the PCI code
> was what I was dealing with).  This problem, incidentally, has nothing
> to do with the IDE controller (Intel 82801CAM, which appears to be some
> kind of unified bus control chip, is supported on my system).
>
> Maybe someone else can fill me in as to why, but the Gateway requires a
> tweak to the kernel environment in order to boot.  The following
> assignment needs to be made:
>
> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
>
> To do this, when you are booting the install disk, and it says "Press
> [ENTER] to boot immediately, any other key for command prompt", press
> another key (space works nicely).  Then, run the following commands:
>
> set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
> boot
>
> The machine will then (hopefully) boot (I never had any problems after
> figuring this out).  This must be repeated each bootup; once you have
> the system installed and running, put the following at the top of your
> /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
>
> and the tweak will be applied automatically.  It should then boot and
> operate properly.
>