VAIO Laptop - Fatal trap 19 on boot

[Mike]

>
> Hi Mike,
>  my solution to the problem was to plug a firewire drive in. You can remove
> the drive after it has been probed. Once i got the o.s installed i built a
> custom kernel without firewire.
>

Thanks!

I don't know where I'm going to get a firewire drive, but at least now I know I
can make it work once I have a custom kernel built.

Maybe when I get a system up and running I'll take a look at why the
firewire module and the VAIO hardware don't like each other.