From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 13 12:19:31 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 12:19:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B34937B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01570; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBDKJP455670; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:19:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200012132019.eBDKJP455670@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> To: Ken Key Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More IBM T20 BIOS booting weirdness. In-reply-to: <200012130326.TAA04527@sodium.cips.nokia.com> References: <200012130326.TAA04527@sodium.cips.nokia.com> Comments: In-reply-to Ken Key message dated "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:26:30 -0800." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <55669.976738765.1@cisco.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:19:25 -0800 Sender: bmah@cisco.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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