Sadly with the quality of BIOS recently, that is not an option. Not much to offer. Attached is a picture of what I have to change. Other and XP are the same, Vista unlocks AHCI.
Another way of accomplishing disabling firewire is to remake the install CD with a different kernel and not quite sure how to do that. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Joel Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan skrev: >> >> Hello, I purchased a new Clevo M860TU on the account that it ran linux >> very well and was hoping it would fair the same on FreeBSD. Not so >> much, little help? I posted this in mobile originally but though >> stable would be a better choice. Don't know if it is more appropriate >> here or ACPI. >> >> I'm giving you as much information as I know how to get. as I cannot >> get sysinstall to load I am having to type all these dmesg. The boot >> process is hanging. This is all with 7.x, I can give 6.x if needed. >> >> Hardware: >> Intel P9500 >> 4gb DDR3-1066 >> Nvidia 9800M GT >> Atheros AR5006e >> >> FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 >> >> These snippets of dmesg happen around the end where it hangs. >> >> 1. Default >> >> ... >> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 >> ACPI Error (dsopcode-0350): No pointer back to NS node in buffer obj >> 0xc6a02d40 [20070320] >> ACPI Exception (dswexec-0556): AE_AML_INTERNAL, While resolving >> operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20070320] >> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed >> [\_PR_.CPU0._OSC] (Node 0xc68556e0), AE_AML_INTERNAL >> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0 >> p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0 >> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 >> ACPI Error (dsopcode-0350): No pointer back to NS node in buffer obj >> 0xc6a0e300 [20070320] >> ACPI Exception (dswexec-0556): AE_AML_INTERNAL, While resolving >> operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20070320] >> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed >> [\_PR_.CPU1._OSC] (Node 0xc685560), AE_AML_INTERNAL >> est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1 >> p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1 >> ... >> cpu0: Cx states changed >> cpu1: Cx states changed >> unknown: timeout waiting for read DRQ >> unknown: timeout waiting for read DRQ >> acd0: DVDR <Optiarc DVD RW AD-7560S/SX01> at ata3-master UDMA33 >> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install >> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config >> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config >> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config >> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config >> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config > > Disabling firewire completely in BIOS might at least get the machine > booting. You should try that if you haven't already. I've seen this > problem on at least two different systems... > > -- > Joel >
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