From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 13:40:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BE21065672 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:40:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8038FC0C for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EC9E46B23; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:40:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D60F18A050; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:40:19 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:40:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110325; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105160940.18935.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 16 May 2011 09:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Johannes Dieterich Subject: Re: Boot halts on Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:40:20 -0000 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. -- John Baldwin