On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguel<luis.hen...@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. -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
