From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 5 13:40:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8510437B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:40:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitch.savina.com (adsl-host-sf-246.apexworld.net [66.114.212.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 215D743E42 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vzd@savina.com) Received: (qmail 14863 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2002 20:40:42 -0000 Received: from adsl-host-sf-246.apexworld.net (HELO bane) (66.114.212.246) by 192.168.1.6 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2002 20:40:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:40:16 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Valerie Delane Reply-To: vzd@savina.com To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6 kills IBM Thinkpad T21? Message-ID: X-X-Sender: foo@mail.savina.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! I recently joined this list. I loaded FreeBSD4.6 from the official cdrom (subscription) on my Dell Latitude; there were too many problems to even bother listing here. I gave up and decided to try on my IBM Thinkpad T21. Lo and behold, the installation seemed to run flawlessly... until exiting the install utility and the system rebooted (of course I removed the cdrom first). The system hung at the color "IBM Thinkpad" splash screen. I power cycled it and it hung at the same place (repeated several times in disbelief). If I'm really fast I can press F1 (bios settings) or F12 (boot device), and the system goes as far as to print "Entering IBM BIOS Setup Utility" or "Preparing Boot Device List," respectively under the IBM logo -- then it hangs. When I did the install, I asked for the FreeBSD bootstrapper and made that partition bootable, but it doesn't even get as far as loading the bootstrapper. I removed power and battery for 10 minutes, then tried again -- no joy. Irregardless of my carp about the Latitude at the beginning of this note, I'm reasonably sure the distribution cdrom is ok because I did eventually get through the install and fiddle with the system at the user level. I suppose it's possible that the IBM hardware suddenly spazzed, but that laptop was running just fine with w2k pro (as well as that os ever runs, anyway) for the last couple of years. Any guesses what happened and how to recover? Best regards, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message