Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:27:13 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.johannes@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Boot halts on Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge) Message-ID: <201106081527.13699.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201106081404.36984.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <BANLkTikZnDcUHDc9oW%2Bbey%2B5D_oHpjd_1Q@mail.gmail.com> <4DD17391.2030008@gmail.com> <201106081404.36984.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:04:36 pm John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, May 16, 2011 2:57:21 pm Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > 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! :-) > > I think this should be fixed by recent changes to the atkbd driver in HEAD > by Jung-uk Kim. I'm not sure if there is a newer snapshot built yet, but > perhaps you can try booting a HEAD kernel into single user mode (will probably > blow up due to not liking /sbin/init) on your i386 world (would need to > use a cross-build (so 'make TARGET=amd64 kernel-toolchain; make TARGET=amd64 > buildkernel', etc.) as a test? Oh, disregard me, I missed the other replies to this thread by accident. -- John Baldwin
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