FreeBSD 5.x installation hangs on Toshiba Tecra A2

[Jamil Ahmed]

Haro,

Excellent !!!! I can now proceed with the install

thanks a lot !

Jamil

>From: Munehiro Matsuda <haro at h4.dion.ne.jp>
>To: jamil.ahmed at hotmail.co.uk
>CC: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x installation hangs on Toshiba Tecra A2
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:56:18 +0900 (JST)
>
>Hello Jamil,
>
>How about setting 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' at loader prompt or
>set it in loader.conf? Toshiba laptops seems to need this.
>
>Hope this helps,
>   Haro
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>From: "Jamil Ahmed" <jamil.ahmed at hotmail.co.uk>
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:42:41 +0100
>::Hello,
>::
>::I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 5.x on my laptop (the processor is
>::Intel Centrino 1.7GHz). I have tried 5.3 and now 5.4, the load stops at 
>the
>::same place for both. FreeBSD 4.10 installs fine. I have tried the normal
>::boot and also boot with ACPI disabled without luck. The following is the
>::tail end of the output when booting with verbose output
>::
>::pcib0: slot 2 INTA routed to irq 10 via \_SB_.LNKA
>::found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x3582, revid=0x02
>::        bus=0, slot=2, func=0
>::        class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
>::        cmdreg=0x0007, statreg=0x0090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
>::        lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt-0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
>::        intpin=a, irq=10
>::        powerspec 1 supports D0 D1 D3 current D0
>::        map[10]: type 3, range 32, base 00000000, size 27, memory 
>disabled
>::
>::
>::the install just stalls at this point.
>::
>::
>::I have tried the suggestions in previous posts relating problems with 
>other
>::toshiba models at the folliwing link
>::http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaoj/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FreeBSD/FreeBSDOnLaptop
>::
>::but it still stalls at the same point.
>::
>::
>::Any Ideas???
>::
>::Let me know if you need more info
>::
>::
>::
>::Thanks,
>::
>::Jamil Ahmed
>::
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