Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 02:28:49 -0800 From: Leo Shum <shum@cs.washington.edu> To: DougB@gorean.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <200012011028.CAA22183@fiji.cs.washington.edu>
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Couple months ago, I posted a rather long message to the mailing list about my experience with the T20. To make the long story short, my FreeBSD 4.1 works very well on the T20 (other than the sound card -- which never worked.) I have it dual-booted with the first partition as Win98 on a FAT32 partition. For some reason, I changed the first parition ID to some random number (but not 165.) and the laptop failed to boot. I had to change it back to a "BIOS supported partition ID" before it could boot again. It seems to me that the BIOS (at least on my T20) cares only about the first partition ID. BTW, for the whole time, I use a boot program called OS-BS instead of boot0. Its size is definitely bigger than 512 bytes (and probably more than 1024 bytes.) I even have the active partition set to the FreeBSD partition. They work just fine. I still, however, cannot have my sound card configured correctly. It is behaving rather non-deterministically. Some time ago, both the csa and pcm drivers attached OK but it would report "channel dead" when I tried to play a wave file. Recently, pcm0 even fails to attach and returns 6. Leo > > > > No. Some fool at IBM (or whomever they contracted the BIOS development > > out to) decided to use partition ID 165 for the suspend-to-disk > > partition, > > There was some discussion being kicked around by reliable sources > recently that the actual problem is that the BIOS decides to blat the > first partition whose type it does not recognize, rather than picking on > 165 specifically. This is only slightly less stupid, but probably easier > to fix. > > Doug > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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