From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 14:05:13 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 DE2AC1065672 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 14:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterich.joh@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966AC8FC19 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 14:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so5477179iwn.13 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:05:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=HIKhrurEyF9oggK+Cm95eG9DnsRgugVl2yrwbdR2ReQ=; b=carOYOsCVy7Srw8e/pEqvV7PvteQa44gSEWl1f26cL/PhQGp1EnJF9ubq9Gf7K9LCg dMfKI33q/yiLC9ZpYrwy+Cfy1UJbcKWJQOLph4KvDIMYRmR7HMgxZnEyvCwhaLCiLakr SR8WpNSAE+U9jYnjsjSrhMvBe3SsmsR6eN/Nw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Y5zxQ6nv5yvOSD4CcxmjYBeUsyNsqNTvBB9blRi/cfvtMaEoFeFrOHEv82UbajfnR4 2X60XnIf4ADiXCvLZ44VJP/PsrrlfUUbp1co8AsVG8wmDwRwzMHNOVYOc+abFsvI3XeV Zhp/W2JJs6/moPA0QHQeRzyAa/wstvhlqCBOM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.194.165 with SMTP id dy37mr3262548ibb.30.1305554712780; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.14.140 with HTTP; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:05:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201105160940.18935.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201105160940.18935.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:05:12 +0200 Message-ID: From: Johannes Dieterich To: John Baldwin X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:25:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 14:05:13 -0000 On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:40 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. > 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, ...)? Thanks a lot for the reply! Johannes Dieterich