Installting FreeBSD on and old Thinkpad X31

[Gordon Bergling]

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?

--Gordon

[Fernando Apesteguía]

Post by Gordon Bergling
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.

Post by Gordon Bergling
--Gordon
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Post by Fernando Apesteguía

Post by Gordon Bergling
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?

hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1
and
kern.cam.boot_delay=MILLISECONDS
and see if that helps.

I tried both variables but the boot still hangs with aboth mentioned error message
minus the usbus{0,1,2,3} part. I would think it is something related to the cardbus
stuff from cbb0 and cbb1.

I'll take a look at the man pages if this cardbus stuff can be somehow disabled.

--Gordon