Hello
I have a Thinkpad T23 and to get current to be stable I had to
upgrade the the bios. Might help you also.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> For the past few days I have been trying to get RC1 running on my old
> laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). The installation worked pretty well, but
> the system crashes frequently when acpi is running.
>
> I decided to get a dump to look at and added the following to my
> rc.conf:
> dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b"
> dumpdir="/scratch"
>
> ad0s2 IS my swap partition. I don't think the /scratch directory is
> relevant as I never get to the savecore.
>
> After I re-boot, the system boots just fine and soon I get the acpi
> crash. At that point I need to enter "continue" several times at the
> db> prompt before the system finally dumps.
>
> When I try to reboot, the system starts to boot normally until it
> tries to mount the root file system. IT then reports that it can't
> mount the system and asks for the manual entry of the root fs.
>
> I tried booting the fixit disk and looking at the disk. fsck_ffs
> reports that the super block is bad and that values disagree with
> those in the first alternate. Continuing produces many, many errors.
>
> When I try to mount the partition, I get "Operation not
> permitted". Attempts to boot the disk now fail completely and I am
> back to re-installing the system.
>
> This all seems to be linked to the dump. If I don't have the system
> configured to dump, it re-boots just fine.
>
> Any idea of what might be happening here? Not being able to get a dump
> doesn't leave me with many options and I'm getting tired of
> re-installing the system, although I'm getting pretty proficient at it.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>
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