Problem upgrading Tosh from FBSD4 to FBSD5

[Vince Hoffman]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:

>>
>> I had a similar problem to yours with a toshiba sattelite some
>> times ago, but under FreeBSD 5.X.  I don't have that laptop
>> anymore.
>>
>> It was possible to go further after disabling eisa support, but
>> I don't remember exactly which hint was needed though.  It should
>> be something like this:
>> hint.eisa.0.disabled="1"
>>
> 	Same thing... Still gets to the same point and stops.
>
> 	Is there some sort of set of settings for a safe boot?
> Oddly enough, I don't get the beastie when I boot, just the old
> 4.0 style "Press enter" one. Is there a problem farther up?

try setting
hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0
I needed to set this to get my portege to boot with 5.x if i remember 
rightly. I would go for 6.x though if i was you, It didnt need anything 
setting and it runs like a dream.


Vince

>
> 		Thanks, Tuc
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