On Monday, May 16, 2011 10:05:12 am Johannes Dieterich wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 15, 2011 8:09:21 pm Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > on a Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge/Cougar Point based) the installation > > > medium loads but halts during boot. I tested the following versions of > > > FreeBSD > > > > > > * 8.2-RELEASE > > > * 9-CURRENT (latest official snapshot from 02/2011) > > > * 9-CURRENT (latest snapshot from Nathan Whitehorn as of 20/04/2011 [1]) > > > * 9-CURRENT (own release medium as of today prepared with the > > > generate-release script) > > > > > > With 8.2, I see the same error messages as [2] with PCBSD-8 (not > > > surprising, of course, but please note that there is no Firewire in this > > > notebook). I do not see what the error message is with 9.0 before it > > > halts. Anyway, according to Kris Moore this is a "known issue with > > > FreeBSD". I have not found anything about such problem in the mailing > > > list archives (apologies if I am wrong). > > > > > > Therefore my question simply is, whether this problem is known and (if > > > yes) there is a fix or workaround available for CURRENT. > > > > > > If needed, I can post a dmesg of a successful boot of the > > > openSUSE-11.4-LiveCD as reference (not doing so now because I assume the > > > list will anyway eat the attachment). Also, I can provide whatever can > > > be obtained using said Linux. > > > > > > Thanks a lot or any replies! :-) > > > > Hmm, is this booting amd64 or i386? Can you try i386 if you haven't? If > > i386 > > doesn't work at first, you might need to try disabling APIC via 'set > > hint.apic.0.disabled=1' at the loader prompt. > > > Sorry, forgot to mention it. Machine has 8 GB of RAM so I have been using > amd64 images for all tests. I will try tonight with an i386 snapshot. Would > the one provided by Nathan Whitehorn be recent enough? Anything in > particular that you would be interested in if it should work (verbose dmesg, > ...)?
Yes, a verbose dmesg would be ideal, I just figured it would be hard to get that on a laptop for the non-booting case. :) A verbose dmesg from a working boot would probably be helpful if you can get it though. > Thanks a lot for the reply! > > Johannes Dieterich > -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
