From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 17 15:21:29 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 7645237B400; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2448C43E31; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from korben (mailboxts3-79.univie.ac.at [131.130.99.79]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6HMKtME188064; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:21:09 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:20:25 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: Lukas Ertl To: Philip Rueegsegger Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 In-Reply-To: <3D35E300.2090302@phibo.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: le@mailbox.univie.ac.at MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Rueegsegger wrote: > 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. > What the fuck damaged my harddisk ? Have you any idea ? Does anybody of > you experienced this problem too ? I guess you have hit a known bug in older Thinkpad BIOSes. These BIOSes treat partitions of type "n * 16 + 5" (for any value of n) as DOS hibernation partitions. FreeBSDs partition type is 165... I don't know why this bug affects the whole notebook, but it was documented more than a year ago IIRC. Maybe a BIOS upgrade (before installing FreeBSD!) solves the problem. HTH, regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message