Installing 13.1 hangs on IBM ThinkPad T41

albr said:
So, I've tried 12.4 with the same result. I've managed to install clean 7.4 and it is ok. I've upgraded it to 8.4, ok. Then I've upgraded it to 9.3 the "CAM timeout" appear but system was booted after several retries, but booting was quite slow.
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Were all of those from CDs?

albr said:
I've tried to upgrade to 10.4 and it failed: CAM status: Timeout, Error 5, Retries exhausted and all these stuff in a loop...
Yes, it was too long jump between 9.3 and 10.4, will try to start with clean install 9.0...
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Have you tried with USB i386 memsticks for these later releases? Or only CDs?

The CAM Status messages I tend to associate with CDs, but maybe that's not all.

If it were me, I'd be trying the [edit:]10.3 12.3 (not 10.4 12.4, possible boot issue) i386 memstick (not .ISO, if it's a CAM issue)

If that boots and installs you can easily freebsd-update to 12.4 - then to 13.x by 2024.

Otherwise maybe it's time to move on; even my venerable T23 died aged 20, 2 years ago. I still mourn! <&^}=
 
smithi said:
Otherwise maybe it's time to move on; even my venerable T23 died aged 20, 2 years ago. I still mourn! <&^}=
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What happened? Did it just fail to power on one day? I have an X21, which boot up from time to time works with FreeBSD without any problem, though I could do with replacing the CMOS battery and getting a proper battery if I ever see one going cheap.

Unfortunately my ThinkPad graveyard has grown quite a bit over the years although I still hope to run a 'post mortum' on some of them...:)
 
As far as I remember, the T41 has an ultra bay which can be replaced with a disk ultra bay.

Maybe you could insert a disk with an already installed version of FreeBSD...
 
smithi said:
Otherwise maybe it's time to move on; even my venerable T23 died aged 20, 2 years ago. I still mourn! <&^}=
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balanga said:
What happened? Did it just fail to power on one day?
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Suspected power board failure; common issue on older T2x series, P/S caps come unsoldered. I didn't chase it, replaced by bargain X200 which works well and still has a great keyboard.

balanga said:
I have an X21, which boot up from time to time works with FreeBSD without any problem, though I could do with replacing the CMOS battery and getting a proper battery if I ever see one going cheap.
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Genuine Lenovo batteries are expensive and hard to find, but cheapese knockoffs are not worth the inevitable bad experience.

balanga said:
Unfortunately my ThinkPad graveyard has grown quite a bit over the years although I still hope to run a 'post mortum' on some of them...:)
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Lucky you if you have that much free time. Cheers
 
albr said:
Yes, I had, but I'll try one more time)
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Hi )
Just why would you need memstick/cd at all? With your installation experience would it not be easier for you to go manual install? I mean, manually install latest (or any, for that matter) distribution and see if it boots. It's just a matter of extracting kernel + base, to start with. Won't take much space either... And if it doesn't boot, file a PR. If the CHANGELOG doesn't mention your model as discontinued, then evidently there's a problem to report.
 
On the second thought... a year ago I was trying to boot installer on an old 32-bit computer. The problem was eventually found out to be -- not enough RAM! So we added RAM and finally were able to boot Debian. Nothing else.
 
free-and-bsd said:
On the second thought... a year ago I was trying to boot installer on an old 32-bit computer. The problem was eventually found out to be -- not enough RAM! So we added RAM and finally were able to boot Debian. Nothing else.
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Don't get me wrong, that machine was made into a good terminal station: basic Debian i386 + X+ Remina -> connect to our Windows server, worked fine for remote administration. With 512M of RAM (wouldn't boot with 256M), if I remember correctly. That was when my respect for Debian as a distro grew considerably.
 
Hello again,

it seems that FreeBSD don't want to get into this laptop... So I going to install Debian with remote desktop client there, will see...

Thank you for your support :)
 
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