i386/63776: FreeBSD 5.x freezes during boot on a toshiba p25 s509 series

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR i386/63776; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/63776: FreeBSD 5.x freezes during boot on a toshiba p25 s509 series
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:18:47 +0300

 [-- Adding to the audit trail the text of misfiled problem report i386/69776 --]
 
     Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:46:50 -0400
     From: "Systems Admnistrator" <joharris2112 at msn.com>
 
     I have tried the solution you mentioned without any luck using fresh disks
     and new 5.2.1 iso's from ftp5,ftp6 <ftp://ftp5,ftp6/>  and ftp13.freebsd.net
     <ftp://ftp13.freebsd.net/> .
 
     I have spent many years using FreeBSD and successfully deploying it on a
     variety of platforms and have tried just about every possible solution
     using various boot options without any success.
 
     I would like to note that a colleague of mine had a similar problem with
     the a Toshiba p20 and that the solution mentioned by Gary worked for him
     with limited success.
 
     He was able to install FreeBSD but after 5 successful subsequent boots
     the same problem occurred and even adding
 
     set hw.pci.allow_unsupportable_io_range="1"
 
     to a boot config didn't help.
 
     (message should have read as follow)
 
     On subsequent attempts to boot off the disks afterwards he managed to
     achieve a successful  boot to the installer on 1 out of every 5 tries
 
     Very Odd no ?
 
     I'm at a loss myself .
 
     If it's any consolation all versions of sunOS from 5.6 to current fail
     due to problems with the Toshiba cardbus as well.
 
     So at this point it's fair to say this Bug still exists and still has
     not been fixed, nor is there an effective workaround.