Hi, > >>booting a Toshiba Portege R100 off Wednesday's 5.1-JPSNAP install CD > >>hangs early during the boot, with or without ACPI. It may be related to > >>probing the graphics chip, see the attached snapshot. > >> > >R100 has problem with PnP for FreeBSD. > >My Toshiba Portege R100 on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE can boot by below process. > > > >1) enter BIOS setup (booting with press ESC) > >2) [Device Config] change to "All Devices" from "Setup by OS" > > Thank you very much, Fumihiko-san, that solved the booting problem! > > However, I was still unable to install 5.1-JPSNAP on the machine. With > the BIOS settings you suggested, I managed to get to sysinstall. After > specifying the desired install setting, sysinstall refuses to install, f > claiming it did not detect a CD/DVD drive? > > The drive in question is detected during boot as: > > umass0: NewAge International STORIX Optical Series, rev 2.00/0.01 > (see http://www.isi.edu/larse/misc/DSC00909.JPG) > > Can sysinstall not install off of USB drives? In my case using "NOVAC CD-R/RW Station for USB", very very slow data transfer (maybe using USB 1.1 but 2.0), so I actually install FreeBSD from FTP. CD-ROM installing is impractical, though possible. (http://www.novac.co.jp/products/hardware/nv-station/nv-cr340u/index.html [this page is written by Japanese]) > To circumvent this issue, I copied the install CD contents onto a local > FTP server, and tried a network install. After contacting the server and > formatting the partition, sysinstall panic'ed died with an ffs panic. A > snapshot of the traceback is here: > http://www.isi.edu/larse/misc/DSC00908.JPG Umm, I got this error by update install, not clean install. > Any ideas on how to pull -current onto this laptop, other then > installing -stable and compiling from scratch? "5.1-RELEASE installing first, then cvsup to -current" is better, I think... (My laptop works fine by this step). Thanks. -- Takayama Fumihiko <tekezo_at_aiit.co.jp>Received on Wed Nov 05 2003 - 15:13:20 UTC
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