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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:19 -0700
From:      bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc:        Philip Rueegsegger <phibo@phibo.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 
Message-ID:  <200207190010.g6J0AJME085129@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207180014330.1020-100000@korben> 
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207180014330.1020-100000@korben>

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If memory serves me right, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Rueegsegger wrote:

[ThinkPad BIOS problem]

> I guess you have hit a known bug in older Thinkpad BIOSes. These BIOSes
> treat partitions of type "n * 16 + 5" (for any value of n) as DOS
> hibernation partitions. FreeBSDs partition type is 165...
> 
> I don't know why this bug affects the whole notebook, but it was
> documented more than a year ago IIRC. Maybe a BIOS upgrade (before
> installing FreeBSD!) solves the problem.

There's also a FAQ entry for this (beware possible line-wrappage):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD

Bruce.



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