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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Dec 14, 2010 22:07:26 GMT -5
Well, I burned the new disk. The MD5 hash didn't match which I'd suspected since the file was different than the previous. Unfortunately, this new build doesn't boot up. It went further but then seemed to get stuck in a loop. Here's another pic of the laptop screen: Sorry to hear that. The build we did includes all of the latest fixes out of BSD, but Toshibas have been particularly troublesome. Just for laughs and giggles, try the Toshiba support site - they just recently released BIOS updates for the 650's and rumor has it that 655's were included in the patches as well. Hopefully yours is one of the fixed ones. Toshiba admits to having written bad BIOS code, and hopefully there's a fix. In a fast research on this, I'm seeing that Linux is having identical problems in Gentoo and Debian and Ubuntu with the only apparent fix for those being turning off ACPI support entirely. No point in doing it though since networking and the keyboard won't work if we were to rewrite our code to turn that off. I'm going to need to dig a bit further on this - once again thanks for the picture and sorry for Toshiba's problems there. I'll see if I can find out what's going on from the pictures since there isn't any way of getting a diagnostics data printout from your machine if it's stopping where it is. The loop though is a rather bizarre outcome - BSD should be giving up on that and continuing, making note of the failure rather than looping. Something REALLY interesting is going on there. Wish I had the funds to go grab or borrow a Toshiba and hook it up to one of our debug machines. Will get back to you as soon as I have anything to add ... in the meantime, see if they've got a BIOS update for you - that might fix it. |
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Post by jerry on Dec 14, 2010 22:33:43 GMT -5
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the hashes..they matched just fine.  I need to think about flashin my bios.  I am running 1.20 now. Here's what the newest bios fixed. the 1.30 was posted on 12/1 and the 1.40 was posted on 12/2/10. Version 1.40 - 2010-09-17 * Added support for the LP156WH2-TLAD and LP156WH2-TLAE LCD panels. Version 1.30 - 2010-07-20 * Fixed: DVD-RW disc detection issue with the TSST-L633C ODD. |
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Dec 15, 2010 0:54:52 GMT -5
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the hashes..they matched just fine. I need to think about flashin my bios. I am running 1.20 now. Here's what the newest bios fixed. the 1.30 was posted on 12/1 and the 1.40 was posted on 12/2/10. Version 1.40 - 2010-09-17 * Added support for the LP156WH2-TLAD and LP156WH2-TLAE LCD panels. Version 1.30 - 2010-07-20 * Fixed: DVD-RW disc detection issue with the TSST-L633C ODD. Here's hoping! There's also some tweaks that you might want to try if that doesn't do it. Seems there isn't actually a BIOS in those things - there's instead an "HWSETUP" thingy in the Windows control panel since these machines are built specifically for Win7/Vista from what I've been reading on since you reported in. There are SATA and USB settings in there which we might need to experiment with flipping. But let's see if their fix alone does the trick before we bother going there.  |
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Post by jerry on Dec 16, 2010 10:50:50 GMT -5
musicman, you mentioned your sister and friend loading KNOS b3 onto Toshiba Satellites. What version of satellites are they? I'm wondering if they are C650 or C655's? How did things go for them?
Kevin, I'm apprehensive to update my BIOS until I'm certain that it will result in KNOS loading. I'm hoping that musicman's people might have a newer BIOS on their c650/655 satellites and KNOS loaded for them.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Dec 16, 2010 15:29:11 GMT -5
musicman, you mentioned your sister and friend loading KNOS b3 onto Toshiba Satellites. What version of satellites are they? I'm wondering if they are C650 or C655's? How did things go for them? Kevin, I'm apprehensive to update my BIOS until I'm certain that it will result in KNOS loading. I'm hoping that musicman's people might have a newer BIOS on their c650/655 satellites and KNOS loaded for them. Not a problem! I truly DO understand. Sorry about Toshiba's way of doing things ... |
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I am running 1.20 now.