From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 1 17:36:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01872 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (root@ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01865 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fraser (brianc@fraser-ep7.sfu.ca [192.168.0.101]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.5/SFU-2.6H) id RAA09904 (from brianc@sfu.ca); Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:36:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Chambers Received: by fraser (950413.SGI.8.6.12/SFU-2.6C) id RAA07552 (from brianc@sfu.ca); Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:36:08 -0700 Message-Id: <199609020036.RAA07552@fraser> Subject: Problem with ThinkPads and FreeBSD To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: brianc@sfu.ca X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With a ThinkPad 750C, when installing FreeBSD 2.1.5, the boot disk hangs. I believe Linux installations have the same problm but they have some fixes. The following prints after a screen of probing, using -v : BIOS Geometries: 0:03910e31 0..913=914 cylinders, 0..14=15 heads, 1..49=49 sectors 0 accounted for ...then hangs ! Is there any documentation on this ? If not, could this problem be researched. Thanks. -- Brian