Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:33:46 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Miguel <luis.henrix@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <4ad871310908051433u6c3fdfadt6ee5af3280a6e89e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5b2efe7c0908051401w62088d7en1af537741bd24f89@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b2efe7c0908051401w62088d7en1af537741bd24f89@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Miguel<luis.henrix@gmail.com> 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 t= ime on > the FreeBSD world). =A0I get lines such as: > > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> [...] > atapci0: [ITHREAD] > atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > ata2: [ITHREAD] > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > ata3: [ITHREAD] > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0 > ata4: [ITHREAD] > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0 > ata5: [ITHREAD] > [...] > atapci1: <ATI IPX600 UDMA 133 controller> [...] > ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > ata0: [ITHREAD] > [...] > > (Note that i wrote these logs manually -- got some photos that I can uplo= ad 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 lo= gs, but > these are common also on Linux -- I believe these are due to a buggy BIOS= , which > unfortunately I am not able to upgrade since I have not windows installed= (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 </boot/mfsroot> 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 acc= urately > > And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. > > Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD > installation on my laptop. =A0I am, of course, available to provide any a= dditional > information you might need to debug the issue. > Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? It should be option 2 from the loader menu. --=20 Glen Barber
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