5.1-BETA2 FAILURE on IBM A30p Thinkpad

[Jesse D. Guardiani]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse at wingnet.net>
>> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 02:12:32 -0400
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>> 
>> 
>> "Andre Guibert de Bruet" <andy at siliconlandmark.com> wrote in message
>> news:20030523145802.U75651 at alpha.siliconlandmark.com...
>> > Jesse,
>> >
>> > IBM just released (As of 5/20/2003) a new version (1EET70WW (1.16)) of
>> > your laptop's BIOS. Could you update it and see if it helps any?
>> 
>> These kernel panics still occur with the 1.16 BIOS.
>> 
>> As an update, I have successfully installed 5.0-RELEASE on this laptop
>> without any kernel panics. However, neither ACPI or APM works. If I
>> disable ACPI then the kernel locks up right before it detects my keyboard
>> controller.
>> 
>> I'm beginning to get discouraged.
> 
> Does you r kernel configuration have:
> options        DISABLE_PSE
> options        DISABLE_PG_G
> 
> I just discovered that a kernel built with these options will not boot
> on my ThinkPad T30 unless I remove APM.

Well, apparently Thomas Girard discovered the problem for me. Entering:

set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

at the loader prompt in 5.1-RC1 (and probably both BETAs) fixes everything
right up!

I'll be returning to my favorite O/S, FreeBSD, from Debian Linux with the
release of 5.1-RELEASE.

Hurray!

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