Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:54:10 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Wm Brian McCane <root@mccons.maxbaud.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installing on T20 Message-ID: <3A5D0432.DC472940@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001229055609.68525B-100000@fw.mccons.net>
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Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run [etc] You have a problem which is technically called an "IBM laptop". IBM, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hibernate on the first partition it doesn't recognize (hypothesis #1) or on the first partition identified as 165 decimal (hypothesis #2). Whatever the case is, when the shitty thing boots, the BIOS checks said partition to see if the system had hybernated. Upon finding stuff there (the FreeBSD partition), it does something which screws the system and locks up. One possible fix to enable normal operation is creating an hybernate partition explicitly and a FreeBSD partition *after* that. You should be able to find out from IBM how to create an hybernate partition. If not, check the next fix. Another fix some people have resorted to is returning the laptop for a refund and, optionally, never again buying from IBM. You might also explain to them why you are doing so, but IBM does not support FreeBSD, so, technically speaking, they are not required to make it compatible with FreeBSD. Legend goes that Linux had the same problem at first (which is the origin of hypothesis #1) and got fixed by having IBM add their partition numbers to to BIOS as recognized partition numbers. It's beyond my ability to understand why they refuse to fix the #%'&%$%'& BIOS so it would use a SAFE hybernate partition number (like the one they used before). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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