From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 17 14:35:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA2037B400; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.phibo.org (gate.phibo.org [217.8.202.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF1643E64; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phibo@phibo.org) Received: from spyrux.phi.bo (spyrux.phi.bo [10.0.0.1]) by gate.phibo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3DD10E812; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from phibo.org (spyro [10.0.0.6]) by spyrux.phi.bo (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6HLZ2K08708; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:35:03 +0200 Message-ID: <3D35E300.2090302@phibo.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:34:56 +0200 From: Philip Rueegsegger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry for crossposting, but I got a REALLY crazy problem: I installed FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 without having ANY problem in the installation process. During the final reboot the system was hanging after shutdown, it didn't reboot. I just powered off and on the machine, but buuh, it didn't even popup the bootloader menu. Well, rewrite the master boot record was my first thought. But, wow, I couldn't even boot from floppy anymore ?!? OK, let's have a look at the BIOS settings, but arrrgh, I was not able to enter the BIOS menu anymore... I removed the harddisk, but still, I couldn't enter the BIOS menu. At this moment I knew, my new thinkpad is not usable anymore. I brought it to the technical support center of IBM and to my surprise, they told me that the harddisk had to be replaced due to PHYSICAL damage. They couldn't even do a low level format ! Well, I told the whole story to a technician and he assured me that there is practically no way to destroy the harddisk just due a OS installation. Of course, I had to reinstall all the stuff (grub bootload, linux, w2k) and, although I had a very bad feeling, I installed FreeBSD 4.5 once again. You don't believe it, but JUST THE SAME RESULT, nothing went anymore after rebooting the system. After having replaced the harddisk the second time, I don't know, but now I'm too afraid to try the installtion again. You have to know, I didn't install FreeBSD for the first time, and obviously, I successfully installed it with the SAME cd's as I 'damaged' my thinkpad's harddisk fucking two times. What the fuck damaged my harddisk ? Have you any idea ? Does anybody of you experienced this problem too ? Cheers, Phibo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message