Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:26:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Ken Key <key@network-alchemy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More IBM T20 BIOS booting weirdness. Message-ID: <200012130426.eBD4Qn306525@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:26:30 PST." <200012130326.TAA04527@sodium.cips.nokia.com>
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> Well, we just had the T20 that was dual-booting Win98SE and FreeBSD
> (the BIOS v1.03 box) become a brick. The guy was moving over to a T21
> (thanks to Bruce Mah's loaning me a major clue this weekend) using
> the change-the-partition-type-hack. He went to reinstall Win98SE from
> the IBM rescue CD, to wipe it before putting it back in the pool. After
> it downloaded some files and tried to reboot, it exhibited the same
> brick behaviors I was seeing on the later BIOS version T20's, T21's,
> and A21P's. Got it to boot again by putting the drive in my 600x
> and nuking the 165.
>
> At this point, I am highly confused! I have no solid idea why it would
> have changed like that.
Probably failure of the swap-to-file mechanism. I'm not hearing anything
from the IBM folks; I'm about to kick them again. Anyone else with
contacts at IBM is encouraged to do the same thing.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
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people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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