Installting FreeBSD on and old Thinkpad X31

Fri Apr 30 10:23:15 UTC 2021

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:17 PM Gordon Bergling <gbe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently got and old Thinkpad X31 on which I would like to install
> FreeBSD on it. I tried to boot 13.0-RELEASE and 12.2-RELEASE, but the
> boot stops with "Root mount waiting for: usbus0 usbus1 usbus2 usbus3 cbb0 cbb1 CAM"
>
> I tried to boot without ACPI and in SAFE mode, but had no luck with these options.
>
> Has anyone a hint, how to install and properly boot FreeBSD on this old laptop?

Super long shot, but try:

hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1
and
kern.cam.boot_delay=MILLISECONDS

and see if that helps.
>
> --Gordon
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