From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Dec 4 10:15:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 10:15:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1630537B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:15:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA20871; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB4IFFx67945; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200012041815.eB4IFFx67945@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Ken Key Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Continuing ThinkPad saga In-Reply-To: <200012020324.TAA31689@sodium.cips.nokia.com> References: <200012020324.TAA31689@sodium.cips.nokia.com> Comments: In-reply-to Ken Key message dated "Fri, 01 Dec 2000 19:24:19 -0800." From: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@cisco.com X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-198100181P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 10:15:15 -0800 Sender: bmah@cisco.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-198100181P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (I'm tired of whiny subject lines, even though that's kind of the way I feel right now.) If memory serves me right, Ken Key wrote: > The broken T20's BIOS should have read v1.08a (IYET45WW) - sorry for > the typo. The BIOS on the other working T20 is v1.03 (IYET37WW). Hi Ken-- I've got a T20, type 2647-86W, with BIOS 1.03 (IYET37WW). Given your comment above, you'd think that I should have no problems... unfortunately I bricked it yesterday after installing 4.2-RELEASE. Details for posterity: The machine came pre-installed with a Win2K image plus some other stuff from ${VBRC}'s IT department. [1] Partition table looks like: ad0s1 Hidden big FAT16 (Win2K Recovery) ad0s2 NTFS ad0s3 Extended partition, containing: NTFS Hidden FAT16 (?) ad0s4 FreeBSD After installing, I rebooted into a hang on the startup screen. I powered down, removed the hard disk, powered up, and then hot-plugged the hard disk so that I could reboot back to the FreeBSD CD-ROM. [2] After "fixing" this problem by zeroing out the partition and diddling around with Partition Magic again, I had a working machine again, the main difference from my start state being that I have FreeBSD's boot0 in the boot blocks. boot0 appears perfectly capable of loading Win2K on this machine. I repeated this experiment again with the same results. Then I installed 4.2-RELEASE and used fdisk(1) to change the type of my FreeBSD slice (I picked OpenBSD, which is 0xA6). Win2K works fine now, but FreeBSD's boot1 will only do its part of the bootstrap from FreeBSD (type 0xA5) slices. So I'm real curious to see why two different machines with the same firmware behave differently. Is there any chance of finding out what the partition table for your T20 with BIOS 1.03 is? In another thread, Peter Wemm suggested that maybe we could have our boot1 handle other partition types in addition to our 0xA5. In my Copious Spare Time, I'm going to see if I can make up boot blocks that do this (doesn't seem too hard to do, although I haven't figured out how to get the boot blocks over to the ThinkPad yet). Problem is...I'm need to be doing Real Work (TM) for $VBRC today. :-p Cheers, Bruce. [1] Very Big Router Company. [2] Yeah, I know. Don't try this at home, kids. --==_Exmh_-198100181P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6K98z2MoxcVugUsMRAkw0AJwLEuzXc0ktjF/4MceK+HPGfccuogCfaXLN vXavQCWZuOhI1XIDC+XdSF8= =V4Zl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-198100181P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message