Toshiba P25-S609 Install problems

[Chris Miller]

Well I spoke too soon.  This worked great for the install.  I got everything 
up and running, got X running with the nvidia drivers and everything.  I was 
feeling pretty good considering this was really my first time playing with 
FreeBSD.

I rebooted the machine about 3 times each time entering the same command to 
get the machine booted. (Since I kept forgetting to set it in the config file 
so I wouldn't need to do it by hand.)  Then on about the 4th reboot it 
stopped working.  

The only thing that I changed between the time that it worked and the time 
that it didn't was a couple of network routes that were only changed in 
memory so they wouldn't have affected anything on the next boot anyway.  I 
now can't get the system to boot past the 
cbb0: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2
line no matter what I do.

If anyone has any ideas on what to do I'd love to hear them.  I would really 
like to look at converting my company servers over to FreeBSD, but until I am 
really comfortable with the system I don't want to do it.  And to get 
comfortable with it I need my main personal computer to be running it.  That 
would be this laptop.

Thanks in advance,
Chris


On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:55 pm, Chris Miller wrote:
> For the benefit of anyone else trying to figure this out and looking
> through the archives I am posting how to fix the problem.
>
> When trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Toshiba P25-S609 Laptop the
> install would hang at the following location:
> cbb0: <ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2
>
> In verbose mode I would get an extra line with the following:
> pcib2: device cbb0 requested decoded memory range 0xc2000000-0xc20fffff
>
> Following the hint from Norton found here:
> http://aproductofsociety.org/toshiba_p25.html
>
> I found the reference to the hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_ranges=1 in the
> manual here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-sysc
>tl.html#SYSCTL-READONLY
>
> You can activate this on the install by doing the following:
> 1) Select option number 6 (Escape to loader prompt) at the selection menu
> for the install.
> 2) Enter the following at the OK prompt:
> set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
> then press enter.
> (You will note there are no quotes around the 1 as shown on Norton's page.
> For some reason it didn't want to work for me with quotes.  Maybe I was
> using single quotes and they should have been double, I don't know, what I
> do know is that it works without them.)
> 3) Type boot and press enter.
>
> Magic, you made it past the spot that was driving you crazy :D
>
> -Chris
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