Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:50:38 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Valerie Delane <vzd@savina.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6 kills IBM Thinkpad T21? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208051543290.27108-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0208051338490.1492-100000@bane>
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Oh, ick! On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Valerie Delane wrote: > > 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, i am guessing that the installation has placed the Master Boot Record in an unhappy state. have you tried using your floppy drive to boot your laptop with? That would be the first place to start. hope you get your laptop back. they are much more persnickety beasts then desktop boxes are..... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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