Thinkpad X61s cannot boot 9.1-BETA1

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 2012-07-20 08:02, John Marshall wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, 11:14 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark 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.
>>
>> What is supposed to happen in the next stage?
>> This laptop worked fine with 9-STABLE to at least february.
>
> This morning I csup'd RELENG_9, built, and upgraded my ThinkPad T43 from
> 9.0-RELEASE-p3 with no problem.  See dmesg output below.  I do realize
> that a ThinkPad T43 is not a ThinkPad X61 but, not knowing how similar
> or different they may be, I thought I'd post a reply anyway.  My kernel
> config includes the following two drivers which may be relevant
> (particularly acpi_ibm): they have been in the config for a number of
> years.
>
> device		acpi_ibm
> device		acpi_video
>

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X61s is rather different from T43 so that might explain why. I have 
tried various variations of modules but there is no difference.

RELENG-9 boots fine
9-BETA1 not
10-CURRENT not

I'll stay at RELENG-9 for the time being and see if anything comes up 
that sheds light on this.

Thanks,