From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 14 15:13: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62AB37B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 70E66786E3; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:42:56 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:42:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Pratibha Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 BIOS 1.16-IYET56WW Message-ID: <20011115094256.A33267@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011109114904.58079.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011109114904.58079.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 9 November 2001 at 3:49:03 -0800, Pratibha wrote: > Can anyone please confirm that this particular > BIOS version is indeed NOT plagued by the dreaded > cannot-boot-after-installing-FreeBSD problem? > I have just upgraded my IBM ThinkPad T20 from BIOS > version 1.07-IYET43WW to this 1.16-IYET56WW version. > > I have seen the past tales of woe about ThinkPads not > being able to boot after installation of FreeBSD. > > I know that there was an official-looking e-mail > dated 15-Feb-2001 from Keith Frechette of IBM > saying that for the T20, > BIOS version "IYET49WW or later" has fixed the > problem: > http://www.clave.gr.jp/ml/bsd-nomads/200102/msg00050.html > This information is also reflected in the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD > > HOWEVER, I HESITATE, because that same FAQ, section > 2.10, says ominously and cryptically: "It has been > reported that later IBM BIOS revisions may have > reintroduced the bug." > > So can someone please confirm that the BIOS > version that I have, 1.16-IYET56WW, has not > reintroduced the bug? In general, is it known or > documented somewhere which BIOS revisions have, > or may have, reintroduced the bug? I haven't heard of this. I'd say you're safe. > I don't want to "just try it out and see what happens", because in > my present circumstances [travelling, away from home base], it would > be very hard to recover from a disaster (nonbootable condition) on > my laptop. Understood. But I can't really see any alternative. Note that I've had a report that the machine isn't completely unbootable, it just takes about 18 hours to get out of the brick-like condition. After that it works normally. 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