10 Dec 2007 gilbou   » (Journeyer)

spent part of the day trying to get freebsd to install on a thinkpad x31. we did use pxe to boot the x31 from a netbsd loaded x30. pxe boot is ok thru tftp and dhcpd, but the x31 did freeze all the time. on freebsd 6.2 we had to remove all /tftpd/kernel/acpi* and it would grab the kernel and mfsroot and freeze at random after keyboard selection or alike. searching online showed a freebsd trouble with x31 related to either acpi and, very probably, the ata1 and the dock (docked x31 dont freeze). so we downloaded freebsd-7 to try it from the ftp, dumped its cd's boot/ to /tftpd but it would not even boot.. we tried to remove the acpi stuff the hard way (by removing the freebsd's kernel acpi*.ko files) but also by tweaking the load_acpi=NO and the hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 (since we pxeboot the laptop and have it load mfsroot+kernel at /tftpd/kernel/kernel we dont get the usual cdrom install menu that offers a non-acpi kernel). neither freebsd 6.2 nor the 7 we got from the ftp did work.. no fun.

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