5.x on a portege A100

[Vince Hoffman]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> > 	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.
>
> I've been vaguely looking into this myself on a friend's laptop... If you
> boot verbose, is the chip it hangs on vendor 8086 product 3584?
>
> If you drop into the bios, I believe there is an option called something
> like "Device config". Set it to "All devices", not "Setup by OS". The
> option may be called "PnP OS", in which case set it to no. Then I believe
> you can boot either with or without ACPI.
>
> This may not be the cause - i've been playing with a few different laptops
> recently...

Fredericks suggestion to
set hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0
at the boot menu got me booting, but fdisk doesnt seem to like my disk
controller, GEOM is set as per 4.x but fdisk says its invalid and changes
it, fdisk then seems to think i have 2 Xenix partitions rather than one
NTFS and one Freebsd Slice.
didnt realy want to carry on as I dont have time to reinstall the
MS slice of my laptop at the moment if it goes wrong.

Vince

> > Gavin
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