Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:07:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-BETA2 FAILURE on IBM A30p Thinkpad Message-ID: <20030523145802.U75651@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <bakkhu$hc$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bajgh4$aqa$1@main.gmane.org> <bakkhu$hc$1@main.gmane.org>
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Jesse, IBM just released (As of 5/20/2003) a new version (1EET70WW (1.16)) of your laptop's BIOS. Could you update it and see if it helps any? Non-Diskette version: http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39863 Diskette version: http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39861 Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> wrote in message > news:bajgh4$aqa$1@main.gmane.org... > > Greetings list, > > > > So far I have tried both 5.1-BETA and 5.1-BETA2 on my IBM A30p Thinkpad. > > Both have failed. I'm currently downloading 5.0-current to see if this > > is a 5.x thing or just a BETA thing. > > Well, this is pretty elusive. I just spent an hour or two systematically > disabling everything in my BIOS that I could disable, and disabling every > hint at the boot prompt that I could disable. > > Still panics at the same spot. I'm going to try disabling some modules next. > > It's a shame that this problem doesn't occur as predictably when I boot with > boot -Dh or boot -h. Otherwise I'd be able to provide the list with trace > output. > > Oh well. I guess I could attempt an install while using boot -h and trace > when it finally dies...
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