From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 21:35:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BAB10656EC for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:35:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luis.henrix@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBB78FC17 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so444177ewy.43 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:35:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NHghqCAxX9nvdRQaKHzTIPXRI74UPTbmEGYSetMJrPc=; b=SA7oC+t9OmsVazT/MERf1x9tpwq0o1rJUQrzI5iTw1bK6agUkyEmg250q8jh/hgCKl P8Ba4YeUhMA8Lds5YDIcsSzVddTuP/E7RbiP8J4aRjnJiHgl1vDG83/la4ZLXDzWNOcj RHTjeGxuvr2uzkQI7i3EZ1vHZ5KAoD0g8VNL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t3RjjjSb3P1hAFYZVS04UZT+HP2RaunacOLPq7gcqdViQ65EOL24kSeA+2vCPkfxrN 6J3iKrrVKPxaNUMd8K0QrwZ6BPxxxeZzRqMq734Y+EUpSA6tXtu1rn5IkExJzQbywQJt BVwGdaNuGCnCfKkAQb4Euh9Md/I/8h099XLIs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.3.206 with SMTP id 56mr1866654weh.99.1249508143866; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:35:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908051433u6c3fdfadt6ee5af3280a6e89e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b2efe7c0908051401w62088d7en1af537741bd24f89@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310908051433u6c3fdfadt6ee5af3280a6e89e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:35:43 +0100 Message-ID: <5b2efe7c0908051435g2b1d35a3pf5d4a71af74329d8@mail.gmail.com> From: Miguel To: Glen Barber Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:35:46 -0000 Hi Glen, On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Glen Barber wrote= : > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been trying to install FreeBSD in my laptop, but without success. = =A0I >> started with 7.2, but during installation i got the error: >> >> =A0"No disk found! =A0Please verify that your disk controller..." >> >> Looking at the logs, everything seems fine to me (although its my first = time on >> the FreeBSD world). =A0I get lines such as: >> >> atapci0: [...] >> atapci0: [ITHREAD] >> atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected >> ata2: on atapci0 >> ata2: [ITHREAD] >> ata3: on atapci0 >> ata3: [ITHREAD] >> ata4: on atapci0 >> ata4: [ITHREAD] >> ata5: on atapci0 >> ata5: [ITHREAD] >> [...] >> atapci1: [...] >> ata0: on atapci1 >> ata0: [ITHREAD] >> [...] >> >> (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can upl= oad to >> some URL if needed.) >> >> So, could not find any issues in the logs, apart from some ACPI errors: >> >> acpi0_check: nexus0 attached >> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present >> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present >> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present >> acpi0_check: acpi0 not-present >> ... >> >> in fact, I have some other ACPI-related errors at the beginning of the l= ogs, but >> these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIO= S, which >> unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installe= d (I >> have a Toshiba Satellite A210). >> > > > [snip] > > >> >> acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST >> device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 >> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec >> md0: Preload image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80fd8660 >> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! >> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 >> warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set ac= curately >> >> And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. >> >> Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBS= D >> installation on my laptop. =A0I am, of course, available to provide any = additional >> information you might need to debug the issue. >> > > Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? =A0It should be option 2 from > the loader menu. Yes, I tried that already with same results. Regards, Miguel