From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 17:18: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A6FD37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from 198.104.176.109 (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.60s) with SMTP id 043471822; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:16:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9933FE.CDB2D19C@pythonemproject.com> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:14:39 -0800 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Coll Cc: freeBSD-mobile@freeBSD.org, freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FX 220 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Coll wrote: > > Hi, Everybody... or Nobody?? > (This is my 12th mail with no response, neither is posted on the mailing > list? Something might be not working well) > > I have an issue trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 Stable on my notebook (Sony > Vaio PCG-FX 220). I am newbie to FreeBSD, and I am having a quite > frustrating experience. I been reading the HandBook for weeks, and it has > become my new Bible. But I can?t see god? > > When I began my installation, I boot with the CD-ROM, I configure the > kernel (as I think is right) and after it gives the list of hardware in the > booting process, system crashes, giving no response to any key or function. > Last line I can see: > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c (It is supposed after this sysinstall must > continue) > > I thought my hardware was in conflict with some IRQ and all that stuff, so > I eliminate all components in conflict, but still happening the same error > at the same step. > > I thought maybe my notebook wasn?t BSD compatible, but reading the mailing > lists I could see a guy with the same PC working fine. > > If someone has this notebook working please make me know and if it doesn?t > work make me know too, maybe we could do something together. > > I would appreciate any kind of help. > > Thanks everybody. > Daniel Coll > newbie@altonono.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message I have an FX290. Had the same problem. You need to add some kernel parameters for 4.5 to work. The second two you will have to give by breaking into the boot sequence. I think "set $parameter" will work for those. agp_load="YES" hw.pcic.intr_path=1 hw.pcic.irq=0 The agp_load is for X11. You will need that later in order to use X. I put them all in /boot/loader.conf. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message