system hangs on boot up

[Munehiro Matsuda]

Hello,

I'm not sure this helps, but how about setting 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0'
at loader prompt or set it in loader.conf?
Toshiba laptops seems to need this.

This should already be fixed in -current, 6.0, 5.4-stable.

Hope this helps,
  Haro


From: James Heck <jpheck at uncc.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:08:18 -0400 (EDT)
::Hi. I am attempting to install freebsd 5.4 on a toshiba satelite a25 
::laptop, in a dual boot scenario with windows xp pro. I have the media 
::on 3 cds: one boot only, cd 1, and cd 2. When i boot from the bsd cd, i 
::get to the devil screen and select normal startup. It then loads up 
::some things and gets to this, where it just hangs and i can hear the cd 
::stop in the drive: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0.
::
::I was instructed to look at the handbook, but that did not seem to get 
::me anywhere. I just updated my chipset, but my bios is a good two years 
::old. After looking at the handbook it seems like this is indeed an acpi 
::issue, any help is greatly appreciated!
::
::james
::
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