6.0 hangs at boot on Toshiba laptop

[Olivier Boudeville]

Hello,

well I finally gave up trying to install FreeBSD on my Toshiba, after
numerous unsuccessful attempts, despite careful changes in the settings,
as I mentioned in :
http://osdl.sourceforge.net/OSDL/OSDL-0.3/src/doc/web/main/documentation/misc/Toshiba.html#freebsd

 I however tried to install the 6.0 stable on a Dell Inspiron 8100, and
it worked out of the box.

Whether the issue comes from ACPI or PCI, maybe the FreeBSD team could
poke at the Linux kernel sources to find how to support "awkward"
laptop, exotic BIOS and so on...

Cheers,

Olivier.


Michael L. Squires a écrit :

> This looks like the problem I have with 5.4-STABLE after a kernel
> change on 9/5/2005 to /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c.
>
> The sysclt paramater "hw.pci.enable_io_modes" is supposed to allow PCs
> with "lazy" BIOSes to boot, but this setting had no effect on my 8100.
>
> If your problem is the same as mine then I'm not sure what, if
> anything, you can do to get 6.X to boot.  In my case I can bootstrap
> from 5.X to 6.X, assuming I figure out how to kludge my way around the
> 8100 BIOS problem on 6.X.
>
> My original message had "Toshiba 8100 Fix" at the beginning of the
> subject line.  There was related material with "changes breaks IDE
> boot" in the subject line, also.
>
> Mike Squires
>
>
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