5.x on a portege A100

[Frédéric DUBOUCHET]

Vince Hoffman wrote:

>Hi all,
>	Firstly sorry for the cross post but it seemed equaly appropriate
>for both lists.
>	I'm rather idley trying to get 5.2.1+ to work on my toshiba
>portege A100. So far no joy, 5.x will not boot. I have tried the
>various boot menu options (with and without ACPI), but 5.2.1
>and the latest -CURRENT snapshot I could could find on the snapshot server
>both freeze at pci0, ACPI enabled says, pci0: <acpi PCI bus> on pcib0
>non ACPI says pci0: <pci bus on pcib0>. I'll write down and retype the
>entire output if it'll help.
>
>	4.x (-STABLE at the mo but 4.9 and 4.10 as well) works fine with
>or without ACPI (with just a few problems with the synaptics touchpad,
>such as it not working on a warm reboot.)
>However I would be happpy with 4.x if it were not for the fact that the
>built in wireless is not supported, so i'd like to try 5.x for Project
>Evil.
>
>I was wondering if anyone had any ideas, either of anything i could try to
>get 5.x booting or else any useful I could send to the -CURRENT list,
>as sadly I have no useful programming skills to try and fix it myself.
>
>Vince
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Ehlo,

Try this option at boot (enter the interactive boot mode) :
set hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0
boot
usualy it solve boot probleme (at least for me) for 5.x on Toshiba...

angel at calodox