More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

George Hartzell hartzell at kestrel.alerce.com
Sun Nov 23 13:23:29 PST 2003


Remington writes:
 > George Hartzell wrote:
 > 
 > >George Hartzell writes:
 > > > 
 > > > I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
 > > > laptop.
 > > > 
 > > > I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
 > > > w/out acpi, and safe.  Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
 > > > same message (see below), although it followed a different driver
 > > > depending on how it was booted.
 > > > [...]
 > > [...]
 > I have a GRX570, the problem can be fixed by adding the following to 
 > your device.hints
 > 
 > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

Yay!  That got it.  Thanks!

g.


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