Thinkpad X61s cannot boot 9.1-BETA1

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 08/21/12 21:09, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:50:27 pm Martin Dieringer wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, July 20, 2012 10:11:33 am jb wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> Did anyone else experience this? With 9.1-BETA1 the boot process
>>>>>>> freezes, among the last lines with verbose boot are
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> acpi_acad0: On Line
>>>>>>> acpi_acad0: acline initialization done, tried 1 times
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> after this, dead.
>>>>>>> ...
>>
>>>> set debug.acpi.disabled="hostres"
>>>> boot
>>>>
>>>> Or, put the following line into /boot/loader.conf:
>>>>
>>>> debug.acpi.disabled="hostres"
>>>> ..."
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, regardless of this attempt, file a PR# for 9.1-BETA1.
>>>
>>> Please try this and let me know if it works.  The bugs that I knew of
> related to
>>> "hostres" should be fixed in 9.1, so if there are still problems I'd like
> to
>>> know about it.
>>
>>
>> this seems to work on a T410, at least it can boot the latest USB-image now.
>> T61 has the same problem, btw.
>
> So the "hostres" hint fixes your T410 on 9.1 that was broken without it?
>

On our X61s's setting 'debug.acpi.disabled="hostres"' does not change 
the inability to boot 9-BETA1, 9-RC1 or -current.

What does fix it however, is to change the Kingston SSD drive to a 
standard mechanical one. This is verified on three different X61s's, see

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/170487

Is there something else I could try or should I just switch drive and be 
fine with it?

I'm happy to try anything you suggest.

Thanks,