From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 5 17: 4:20 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 EB6E537B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B8743EB1 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:59:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([66.124.233.135]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H0E00762AKK4P@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 16:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:00:44 -0700 From: richard childers Subject: Re: 4.6 kills IBM Thinkpad T21? To: vzd@savina.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <3D4F11AC.46800934@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: 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 Install FreeBSD with the standard boot block; make sure the second partition down (not the first partition, where the boot block resides, but the second partition, where FreeBSd resides) is the one that is marked bootable. Been running FreeBSD on Dells and IBM TPs without any problems; have faith and don't give up yet. -- richard 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, > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Richard A Childers/KG6HAC Senor UNIX System & Network Administrator "Dont forget nothing." Maj Robert Rogers, standing orders, 1st Ranger Bn, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message