Thinkpad a30p with 5.1-BETA2 problems

"Jesse D. Guardiani" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization WingNET Internet Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.1-BETA2 on my IBM Thinkpad A30p,
but I'm having the following problems:

1.) If I just insert the install CD and reboot, the kernel hangs
    right after it detects firewire on my system.

2.) If I stop the boot process by pressing a key at the kernel
    boot prompt, then enter:

    boot -Dh

    to boot from a serial console, the kernel boots fine. However,
    I've only gotten the serial console to output properly ONCE on
    a remote machine, and I think that was a fluke.

    I'm using the following command to grab the serial console from
    the remote machine:

    cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 9600

    Again, this worked once, but when I rebooted it outputed garbage
    again. Is there a better program that I can use for serial console
    communications? I didn't find the handbook to be much help in this
    area. I'd prefer to not use a TTY since I don't plan to do this
    very often.

Anybody have any tips or ideas?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
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