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.
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Takayama Fumihiko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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