From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 22 7:40:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 07:40:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F061E37B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBMBOk185095; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:24:46 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:24:45 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: John Van Sickle , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad Partition Problem Solved? Message-ID: <20001222112445.A84939@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <002001c06b69$278a7f60$d84c0f18@evansv1.in.home.com> <200012211849.eBLIngE35110@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012211849.eBLIngE35110@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:49:42AM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:49:42AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > 1. Go to http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/ThinkPad/ and grab the boot1 > and boot2 files. Put them where you'll be able to retrieve them later > (it might be sufficient just to note where they are, if network > connectivity in the middle of your install is an option, so you may not > really need to do anything here). Attached is a FAQ patch. Comments? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=p Index: book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.129 diff -u -r1.129 book.sgml --- book.sgml 2000/12/05 13:18:16 1.129 +++ book.sgml 2000/12/22 11:24:17 @@ -2399,6 +2399,75 @@ + + I have an IBM Thinkpad A20p that FreeBSD installs on, but then + the machine locks up on next boot. How can I solve this? + + + + It seems as though IBM decided to use partition ID 165 for + their suspend-to-disk partition. This is the same ID FreeBSD + uses, and after installing FreeBSD the BIOS refuses to boot. A + workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD + uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different + partition ID. + + + + Download boot1 and + boot2 from http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/ThinkPad/. + Put these files somewhere you will be able to retrieve them + later. + + + + Install FreeBSD as normal on to the ThinkPad. + Do not use Dangerously + Dedicated mode. Do not + reboot when the install has finished. + + + + Either switch to the Emergency Holographic + Shell (ALT + F4) or start a + fixit shell. + + + + Use &man.fdisk.8; to change the FreeBSD partition ID from + 165 to 166 (this is the + type used by OpenBSD). + + + + Bring the boot1 and + boot2 files to the local + filesystem. + + + + Use &man.disklabel.8; to write boot1 + and boot2 to your FreeBSD slice. + + &prompt.root; disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 ad0 + + + + Reboot. At the boot prompt you will be given the option + of booting OpenBSD. This will actually + boot FreeBSD. + + + + Getting this to work in the case where you want to dual boot + OpenBSD and FreeBSD on the same laptop is left as an exercise for + the reader. + + + + Does FreeBSD support JAZ, EZ and other removable drives? --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message