Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:47:30 -0800 From: Lamont Lucas <lamont@cluepon.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: installing 4.9-stable on Sony Vaio TR2A Message-ID: <20031223184730.GY3446@clavin.cluepon.com>
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Hi guys. I've been trying to install freebsd on a new Sony Vaio TR2A and ran into some problems getting it to boot after install. I was hoping someone could look at what I've done and suggest additional debugging or point out any mistakes. Initially I tried installing from 4.9 release cds, but that failed as the ide controller wasn't recognized. So I looked around and found a 3 line patch submitted in september that allowed the controller, an "Intel 82801DBM IDE" to be picked up. The patch and bug report are located at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2003-September/000325.html So having applied that to my local 4.9-stable tree, I made release and used the miniinst disk to install onto a second partition of my laptop. (FYI, the disc1 dosen't seem to build, but I think I saw someone else mention that on -stable). The install completes successfully, and as I'm trying to boot into a partion located well beyond cylinder 1024, I reran the boot0mgr with the -B -o packet options in order to allow it to boot. The problem is that it dosen't boot. Specifically, the boot manager comes up ok, then I select F3, the freebsd option, the laptop thinks for less than a second then flashes part of the bios splash screen and sends me right back to the boot manager. That cycle continues endlessly unless I stop it. Now pressing F2 happily gets me back to the Windows XP partition, which works fine. Can anybody suggest additional information I could gather or things I could try? My end goal is to be able to boot into freebsd as well as to be able to run it under vmware, but I'd be happy if I could just get freebsd to run. -- - Lamont "I am not an atomic playboy."
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