Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:21 +0200 From: Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.johannes@googlemail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot halts on Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge) Message-ID: <4DD17391.2030008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201105160940.18935.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <BANLkTikZnDcUHDc9oW%2Bbey%2B5D_oHpjd_1Q@mail.gmail.com> <201105160940.18935.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 05/16/2011 03:40 PM, John Baldwin 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. The i386 image as of 11/04/2011 of Nathan Whitehorn booted into the live system without problems. The hint was not needed. Please find a verbose dmesg at http://pastebin.com/4UTHsg7F Does this tell you anything? If you (or anybody else) should need anything more, just let me know how to obtain it! :-) Best regards Johannes Dieterich
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