From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 10 18:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C62C37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:34:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E4BA57532; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:33:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:33:55 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Wm Brian McCane , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installing on T20 Message-ID: <20010110203355.A21082@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <3A5D0432.DC472940@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5D0432.DC472940@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:54:10AM +0900 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:54:10AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral scribbled: | Wm Brian McCane wrote: | > | > I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run | | [etc] | | You have a problem which is technically called an "IBM laptop". IBM, in | their infinite wisdom, decided to hibernate on the first partition it | doesn't recognize (hypothesis #1) or on the first partition identified | as 165 decimal (hypothesis #2). Whatever the case is, when the shitty | thing boots, the BIOS checks said partition to see if the system had | hybernated. Upon finding stuff there (the FreeBSD partition), it does | something which screws the system and locks up. | | One possible fix to enable normal operation is creating an hybernate | partition explicitly and a FreeBSD partition *after* that. You should be | able to find out from IBM how to create an hybernate partition. If not, | check the next fix. | | Another fix some people have resorted to is returning the laptop for a | refund and, optionally, never again buying from IBM. You might also | explain to them why you are doing so, but IBM does not support FreeBSD, | so, technically speaking, they are not required to make it compatible | with FreeBSD. Solution #3: My latest drool^Wdream is in the following URL: http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html (at least a thousand dollar cheaper than IBM notebooks.) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message