Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:56:53 +0200 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Nicolas Alexander Scheibling <n.scheibling@gmx.ch> Cc: Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VAIO intel i7 Ivy Bridge ultrabook installation fail: Disks not found Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PJamQ9raJDKjTV82LzEjpx8a7yz%2B_Yxh0Z4ebniZE6BpQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130514174135.356c2b47@niklinux.cunt.org> References: <20130514174135.356c2b47@niklinux.cunt.org>
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Nicolas Alexander Scheibling <n.scheibling@gmx.ch> wrote: > Hello, > > as I am newly writing to these mailing lists, forgive my formal and > content-relative mistakes. > > As it stands now, I would absolutely love installing some 10-CURRENT on > my newly acquired SONY VAIO ultrabook. AFAIK powered by Ivy Bridge ULV, > 1.9 - 2.3 GHz. It has an additional SATA 32 GB Samsung SSD and a > regular 500 GB HDD. It comes with Win 8, cannot stand the Metro. > (although Elan Touchscreen is nice). > > I installed world from my old-beater AMD box on a USB pen drive (i386). > Now it loads the kernel, but won't let me mount any root file systems. > Looks like the platter isn't detected at all. Is that a common problem > with Ivy Bridge systems? Is it a deliberate chipset flaw by Intel as in > *this low-end lappy is not allowed to run anything else than WIN* or > can I do something about it? Forgive me for being at least a power > user, but certainly no device driver developer. :(, all has its limits. > > Thank you so much. I'd jump for joy seeing this thing run BSD, > preferably even from USB, as the turbo boost and the lowish power > consumption are really cool. > > Don't rip my head off for untainted e-mail origin and somesuch. I'm a > lazy bugger, my life circumstances aren't that great and most > Importantly I Dont Have A 5 Million $$ Server Farm. Cheers. Just out of curiosity - have you tried playing with the BIOS settings for USB legacy mode - and for the SATA chipset mode? (If any, ofc.)
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