Re: Anyone know how to get FreeBSD on a framework 13 laptop?

On 2025-12-10 00:52, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:35:56 -0800
> Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-12-09 22:34, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> > In message <63ebfc5a49b38196ead43b7403f0a12c@bsdforge.com>, Chris writes:
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>> >> OK because I know you're going to ask... :-)
>> >>
>> >> framework 13 laptop (MSI Crosshair 18 HX AI A2XWGKG-012US)[1],[2]
>> >> CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 275HX [3]
>> >> GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with NVIDIA Optimus supported [4]
>> >> LAN: Realtec RTL???? 2.5Gb
>> >> WiFi: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211(2*2 ax)
>> >>
>> >> I'm currently unable to boot any of 13.5,14.n,15.n or 16 on this laptop.
>> >> On 13.5 it hangs on sc (syscons(4)?) connect...
>> >
>> > Add this,
>> >
>> > kern.vty=vt
>> >
>> > to your loader.conf.
>> Really appreciate your taking the time to reply, Cy.
>> Just tried this. But same results. FWIW, I only saw the syscons message
>> on 13.5. I've since made a 16-CURRENT from the kernel,base and lib32 
>> archives
>> that were on ftp.freebsd.org (now missing).
>> >
>> > If you look at the sc(4) man page you will notice,
>> I  know. :)
>> 
>> > As to how I got my Framework 13 (with AMD chipset) installed, I cloned
>> > FreeBSD, including all data, from my HP 840, also running in UEFI mode,
>> > changing fstab and rc.conf to customize a few things before booting the
>> > Framework laptop. (The HP 840 also uses kern.vty=vt.)
>> Close to what I did to get 16 on my framework 12. All the right bits 
>> weren't
>> yet available at that time. All good now tho.
>> 
>> This is where I land now (on 16):
>> Event timer "HPET" frequency 19200000Hz quality 350
>> Event timer "HPET1" freq...
>> ...
>> Event timer "HPET7" freq...
>> atrtc1: <AT realtime clock> on acpi0
>> atrtc1: Warning: Couldn't map I/O.
>> 
>> Just realized I might find some clues in dmesg(1) on my framework 12.
>> This is from the same area as above (yep same Warning message on my 
>> framework
>> 12):
>> 
>> atrtc1: <AT realtime clock> on acpi0
>> atrtc1: Warning: Couldn't map I/O.
>> atrtc1: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s
>> ioapic0: routing intpin 8 (ISA IRQ 8) to lapic 18 vector 49
>> ioapic0: routing intpin 8 (ISA IRQ 8) to lapic 0 vector 49
>> Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
>> attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>> 
>> > To boot the Framework from install media, break to the loader prompt and
>> > type in,
>> >
>> > kern.vty=vt
>> >
>> > Then boot. Install FreeBSD. Finally, make sure kern.vty=vt is in the
>> > installed image's loader.conf before rebooting the image.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> 
>> --Chris
>> 
>> --
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> 
> Maybe these in /boot/loader.conf help?
> 
> hint.uart.0.disabled=1
> hint.uart.1.disabled=1

Thanks for the hints, Tomoaki!
Unfortunately it made no difference. :(

> 
> Info from:
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/framework-16-ryzen-9-7940hs-and-freebsd-14-0-release.92421/#post-651306
> 
> Regards.

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