Problems with FreeBSD installation

[Miguel]

Hi Glen,

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Glen Barber<glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguel<luis.henrix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success.  I
>> started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error:
>>
>>  "No disk found!  Please verify that your disk controller..."
>>
>> Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first time on
>> the FreeBSD world).  I get lines such as:
>>
>> atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> [...]
>> atapci0: [ITHREAD]
>> atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected
>> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>> ata2: [ITHREAD]
>> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>> ata3: [ITHREAD]
>> ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
>> ata4: [ITHREAD]
>> ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0
>> ata5: [ITHREAD]
>> [...]
>> atapci1: <ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller> [...]
>> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
>> ata0: [ITHREAD]
>> [...]
>>
>> (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upload to
>> some URL if needed.)
>>
>> So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors:
>>
>> acpi0_check: nexus0 attached
>> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present
>> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present
>> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present
>> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present
>> ...
>>
>> in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the logs, but
>> these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS, which
>> unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed (I
>> have a Toshiba Satellite A210).
>>
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>>
>> acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST
>> device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>> md0: Preload image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80fd8660
>> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
>> warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
>>
>> And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes.
>>
>> Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD
>> installation on my laptop.  I am, of course, available to provide any additional
>> information you might need to debug the issue.
>>
>
> Can you try booting with ACPI disabled?  It should be option 2 from
> the loader menu.

Yes, I tried that already with same results.

Regards,
Miguel