Thinkpad X61s cannot boot 9.1-BETA1

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 12 18:58:38 UTC 2012


On 12.09.2012 20:46, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:30:36PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 12/09/2012 20:25 Lars Engels said the following:
>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:54:30PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> Could you try to play with different eventtimer settings (preferably in current) ?
>>>> You can use this thread / PR as a guide:
>>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.amd64/14480/focus=14495
>>>>
>>>> The place where boot stop looks suspiciously close to the place where timer
>>>> interrupts should start driving the system.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's it!
>>> Setting  kern.eventtimer.timer="i8254" let's the Thinkpad boot on
>>> CURRENT with the AC cable inserted.
>>>
>>
>> Please share your sysctl kern.eventtimer output with Alexander.
>> He will probably ask for some additional information :-)

Sorry if I've missed, but it would be useful to see verbose dmesg in 
situation where system couldn't boot without switching eventtimer.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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