5.1-BETA2 FAILURE on IBM A30p Thinkpad

From: Jesse D. Guardiani <jesse_at_wingnet.net>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:49:12 -0400
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.

FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE is currently installed and working on this same machine.
Everything but APM works fine (and that is why I want to try 5.x. I want APM)

Problem Description
-------------------
The 5.x-BETAx installation CD's kernel crashes at boot. I get the DB prompt.
I'd love to capture this crash output with a serial console, but the fact
is that it DOESN'T crash if I boot with either:

boot -Dh
or
boot -D

However, it DOES crash later on in the upgrade process when it's actually
installing files. I had to run 'upgrade' with my 4.8-REL CDROM just to
repair the damage.

Any ideas? I'd be happy to offer more specific info to anyone who needs it.


System specs
------------
PIII-M 1.2Ghz
128M+256M PC133 SDRAM
PRISM 2.5 Wireless Mini-PCI card (working in 4.8)
Firewire
USB (assume version 1.x)

ATI Mobility Radeon (not sure which version. 7500 maybe?
Displays as 'ATI model 4c59 graphics accelerator' in 4.8
dmesg.boot) (works great in 4.8)

Intel 82801CA/CAM based sound chip (works fine with pcm0 in 4.8.
I had to enable 'options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES' in my kernel to
keep the kernel from locking up on boot though)

Intel Pro/100 Ethernet (working with fxp in 4.8)

assorted other hardware.


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Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
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Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 13:02:47 UTC

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