From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 23:59:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD34037B4CF; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9J72Gh00614; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010190702.e9J72Gh00614@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Rob Winters Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new IBM Thinkpads rejecting FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:59:29 EDT." <5.0.0.25.0.20001018145632.00ac76f8@mail.fiderus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:02:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jonas Bulow wrote: > >That doesn't make sense. The only thing I changed to get the drive > >working was to change the partition type of the freebsd partition from > >165 to 131. Today I will try to use partition magic to create the > >partitions. > > I just killed a ThinkPad A20p by installing 4.1-RELEASE. Apparently IBM allows > for boot sector programs of a certain size, i.e. "LILO-sized". After that, the > BIOS stores power management information ON THE BOOT SECTOR. If the BIOS finds > unpalatable information in that location (presumably whatever FreeBSD puts > there), > then it gets very confused: This has been discussed by several people in the terminal room here at BSDcon, and the consensus there was that the issue is actually that the TP BIOS doesn't like the 'active' flag being set on any partition. The reporter further claimed that they'd "worked" around it by powering up and then inserting the drive at a later stage. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message