Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:39:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: timothy r krell <trk@penguinsuspenders.net>, Gabriel Rocha <grocha@geeksimplex.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the ThinkPad T22 Message-ID: <20010715113914.F96615@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010714051440.A1010@penguinsuspenders.net>; from trk@penguinsuspenders.net on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:14:40AM -0600 References: <20010714051440.A1010@penguinsuspenders.net> <20010714160300.A5323@geeksimplex.org> <20010714051440.A1010@penguinsuspenders.net>
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On Saturday, 14 July 2001 at 5:14:40 -0600, timothy r krell wrote: > I've been digging around on google (geocrawler as well), and I've found > several dozen reports of T21-series Thinkpads not being able to boot > after having FreeBSD installed on them. I'm looking to install FreeBSD > on my new Thinkpad T22 this weekend, but I've not been able to dig up > any information regarding the T22 and FreeBSD compatibility. Has anyone > successfully installed FreeBSD 4.3 (or any version, for that matter) on > their T22, or is this a hopeless cause? I'm hoping IBM fixed the > stupidity of doing weird things with paritition type 165 in the BIOS, > but I'd like to confirm before torching my working Linux-2.4.5 setup and > installing 4.3. Any advice/help would be appreciated. On Saturday, 14 July 2001 at 16:03:00 -0400, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > > IBM fixed the issue with the Thinkpads not being able to boot in the > latest BIOS revision. If if doesnt boot, just update the BIOS, or update > the BIOS before installing. --gabe I believe the bug was fixed before the T22 came out. I have one, and it works fine. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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