On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > --On 05 September 2005 19:31 +0400 Stanislav Sedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Try to disable ACPI - it can helps. There may be some problems with ACPI > >on your laptop - BIOS update sometime helps. But first try to disable ACPI > >during FreeBSD boot. > > Latest BIOS on the machine already (apparently published sometime in > August, '05) - No difference at all with ACPI disabled, apart from one PNP > warning [which is understandable] and appeared to be something to do with > the onboard sound. > > -Karl > > ps. When I said 'slice' in my earlier post, I meant partition - the hard > drive has a WinXP partition, and a FreeBSD partition with the various > slices on it, which Sysinstall doesn't see at all at installation time (in > case anyone was rolling eyes <g>)... > > How does your SATA controller operate? Try to use LEGACY mode. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"