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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:25:47 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507131723180.70573@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tRmR5d4z_TMshkv3K88XzhLe-hLZ=OFOUyD27vPKsLKg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <55A1FFD5.7080008@freebsd.org> <55A2030B.7010405@freebsd.org> <55A2835F.1030004@yandex.ru> <55A2ACDD.408@freebsd.org> <55A36FBE.1020206@beastielabs.net> <55A3D01E.40102@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507130915250.56039@wonkity.com> <55A3DF26.5020602@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507131156570.88315@wonkity.com> <55A41036.2070602@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507131342000.88315@wonkity.com> <55A416EC.2020306@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1tRmR5d4z_TMshkv3K88XzhLe-hLZ=OFOUyD27vPKsLKg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> This is possibly orthogonal and possibly not of use on X2nn systems, but I boot my T520 with a GPT formatted disk as the secondary drive by having the MBR disk0 configured with booteasy
> and telling it to boot disk1. While this is of no use on single spindle systems like the X220, I have been told that a MBR USB drive can be used to do the same thing. I have not tried
> this and can't confirm, though. Clearly a kludge work-around, but better than nothing and works well for me as I have always left Windows on the main drive and put FreeBSD on the
> removable one.

Please, whoever has one of these systems, find a contact address for 
Lenovo.  It should be on every one of these messages, and we should be 
encouraging every affected user to contact Lenovo support.  I can post 
it in the forums, also.



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