Boot halts on Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge)

[Johannes Dieterich]

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! :-)

Best regards

Johannes Dieterich