Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:19:25 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Ken Key <key@network-alchemy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More IBM T20 BIOS booting weirdness. Message-ID: <200012132019.eBDKJP455670@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <200012130326.TAA04527@sodium.cips.nokia.com> References: <200012130326.TAA04527@sodium.cips.nokia.com>
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If memory serves me right, Ken Key wrote: > 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 Remember to return the clue when you're done with it...I frequently run short of them and every last one counts. > 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. As someone else pointed out earlier on this list, it's physically possible to hot-swap the T20's hard disk if you get into this situation, although it is definitely non-recommended. I sure don't advise doing it. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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