Re: Boot halts on Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge)

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> 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