From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 1: 4:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oden.exmandato.se (oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C5E37B423 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from servicefactory.se (root@oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by oden.exmandato.se (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10784; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <39C86F74.16CC3B59@servicefactory.se> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:04:04 +0200 From: Jonas Bulow X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Haas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! ... > The rep at IBM Tech Support claims that IBM is aware of this problem. He > claimed that FreeBSD was "writing the boot sector somewhere above the usual > boot sector location". His explanation doesn't make sense, and he was unable > to provide me with any specifics... That doesn't make sense. The only thing I changed to get the drive working was to change the partition type of the freebsd partition from 165 to 131. Today I will try to use partition magic to create the partitions. /j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message