5.1-BETA2 FAILURE on IBM A30p Thinkpad

[Kevin Oberman]

> 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.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634