(consider this a placeholder! - to obligate myself to document and solve this ‘challenge’ )
has someone had a similar experience?
In the local makerspace I was gifted a Lenovo Thinkpad X200x (the old style of keyboard is definitely better than their new keyboards - and “get off my lawn!” ).
That day I had a USB-drive with NomadBSD 13.1 and booted the Thinkpad. All hardware was detected and I was so happy!!!
BUT trying to USB-boot or install a later version of NomadBSD - both 13.2 and 14.0 - stalls late in the boot-process.
(here I will later paste in the details - and where exactly the boot-process stops)
I have tried to research what changed in FreeBSD at that point, but haven’t found the right answer yet…
Time is spend on curveballs, that Life keeps throwing at me - and friends I am helping…
Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.
— Jim Rohn
Hello @grahamperrin (AKA ‘CRT’ ),
will do!
…maybe already this weekend.
Right now my solution has been to install the old NomadBSD 13.1 and manually bring it up to FreeBSD 14.1 - with the added bonus of still using the more lightweight Openbox (and that explains my newest post ).
Enjoy your weekend everybody
PS.
Should call it “FrankenBSD” and not FreeBSD or NomadBSD
I am also willing to return to the clear and convenient OpenBox. Unfortunately, I have not saved the NomadBSD 13.1R distribution image. Maybe it would be easier to install pure FreeBSD, then use desktop-installer to add OpenBox and its environment.
manual update to FreeBSD 14.1 wasn’t smooth sailing all the way! -and the transfer of NomadBSD 13.1 w/ ZFS to fixed disk had some minor wrinkles (under the hood, not influencing the user-experience!).
You will save some time using desktop-installer, everything is up-to-date right away and no risk of carrying over old cruft.
On the other hand with the Bee-link NIC learning-experience behind you, maybe you’re ready for a new one
Enjoy ‘moving in’ to your new computer
PS.
If you must try NomadBSD 13.1, I can provide you the image.
Status is, that the spinning disk in the X200s gave up the ghost last year.
So it became much more difficult to test how to mitigate my problems…
The step I would very much like to test - if I find time to bring this laptop back into use - is to remove the 4G/3G-modem/internet-module.
I have a feeling this module is contributing to the problem!!!
Any of you have good or bad experiences with modem-modules?
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Michel