Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:37:30 -0500 From: Tony Rimovsky <tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <20001009083730.A11181@ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <v04210100b5ed508fefd8@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:01:07PM -0400
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Do you have any insight as to why the T20's can run FreeBSD at RPI? We have two of them and have tried just about every combination of BIOSs and installations we can think of and still can't get the laptop to get past the drive check if the drive has a freebsd partition anywhere on it. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:01:07PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:15 PM +0200 9/19/00, Jonas Bulow wrote: > >A follow-up on my own problem. > > > >The T20 does not allow a partition type of 165. If I change > >it to 131 (ext2fs) the computer boots fine. Otherwise, as I > >explained earlier, the computer hangs before it is even > >possible to enter the bios setup. > > > >Does anyone on this list use a IBM thinkpad T20 or A20 with FreeBSD? > > This is mighty hard to believe. Here at RPI, the T20 was chosen as > the laptop for this year's incoming freshmen. While there are some > hurdles in getting freebsd running on those laptops, those hurdles > were in the "standard places" for hurdles. The T20's have a new > type of ethernet card, so freebsd couldn't talk to the network. > There is also some new graphics controller, so you have to have a > customized version of the XFree86 server to work with it. Our > own Jon Chen (a grad student here at RPI) got a patch together > for the ethernet card to work. I think he's also been messaging > the Xserver so it's more reliable. > > I'm afraid that I don't know all the details, but I do know that > about three weeks ago we did have about 30-60 T20 owners up and > running on FreeBSD. > > The idea that a laptop would not BOOT due to the partition type > seems pretty strange to me. At no time did we have trouble with > the T20's booting. I should probably note, however, that we were > not doing a freebsd-only setup, so I don't know how well that > would work. What we did was use partition-magic to shrink the > Win98 partition, and then install freebsd into the second > partition. That seemed to work fine. > > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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