From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 15:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from always.got.net (always.got.net [207.111.232.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602051518D for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tkaiso@got.net) Received: from got.net (tkaiso.sjc.got.net [207.111.245.44]) by always.got.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27855; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:41:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382219DA.11D95820@got.net> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 15:42:19 -0800 From: Takayuki Kaiso X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation hang up during probing devices (Sony Vaio PCG-Z505RX) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the suggestion. I found that disabling "memory stick" through the BIOS setup fixed this problem. After that, I used PAO to complete my installation. The internal modem does not work because the modem (Rockwell HCF 56K SpeakPhone PCI modem) is believed to be "Win Modem". thanks again taka <> 1. On another machine, download PAO from www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/ - kern.flp, mfsroof.flp, paodist.tar 2. Make two floppies ( option ) - dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 - dd if=mfsroof.flp of=/dev/rfd0 3. Start Vaio Z505, the hit "F2" immediately to setup BIOS disable "memory stick" --> otherwise, the installer will hung up while probing devices 4. execute either 4A or 4B ( I did 4B. ) 4A. Start Vaio using installation CD #1 4B. Start Vaio again using "kern.flp" of PAO version (created in step 2.) - select "configure" to select the target drivers (otherwise, IRQ 11 for PC card driver conflicts later ) - remove all network drivers (the ethernet driver is "fxp0" which is found in "PCI" ) 5. Proceed the installation procedure 6. XF86Setup - graphics : NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV : chipset=NM2200 7. Complete the installation 8. Customize the kernel to recognize PC card controller - get "paodist.tar" via FTP/NFS ("paodist.tar" in step 1.) - copy "paodist.tar"file to /usr/src/ - untar "paodist.tar" - cd PAO3 - read "README.install" and proceed the steps to customize kernel Restriction : - the internal modem (Rockwell HCF 56K SpeakPhone PCI modem) is believed to be a winmodem, thus it can't not work with FreeBSD Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Takayuki Kaiso wrote: > > > I am now trying to set up my new laptop ( Sony Vaio PCG-Z505RX ) for > > FreeBSD 3.3, but the installation hang up at the very beginning stage. > > It showed "Probing devices, please wait(this can take a while)" message > > and actually it took forever. > > If it has a cdrom drive, try hitting the eject button a few times slowly. > > -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message