From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 23: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Gotska.IJP.Si (unknown [193.2.67.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8475737B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brodnik@localhost) by Gotska.IJP.Si (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAN5ENg08697; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:14:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from brodnik) From: Andrej Brodnik (Andy) Message-Id: <200011230514.eAN5ENg08697@Gotska.IJP.Si> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20001122075612.B16143@lebel.org> "from David Lebel at Nov 22, 2000 07:56:12 am" To: David Lebel Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:14:22 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, drosih@rpi.edu, jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu, netdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu, charlie@infoworks.net Organization: Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics Reply-To: Andrej.Brodnik@IMFM.Uni-Lj.SI (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 07:56:12 -0500 > From: David Lebel > Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD > > Quoting Andrej Brodnik (brodnik@Gotska.IJP.Si): > > > > any progress/solution regarding this problem? My T20 doesn't boot > > either if I label a partition as FreeBSD partition (type 165). When I > > change the type of partition to 131 it works again (unfortunatelly > > without FreeBSD booting). > > I think that, as long as you have a DOS partition as the first > partition, you should be OK. I don't use BootMgr as my boot loader, > also, I'm using Boot Magic from Partition Magic. I do have DOS partition as the first one on my disk. Now, where can I get (and how do I install) BootMagic? And, did you try it with FreeBSD partition? LPA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message