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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:44:23 +0200
From: Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se>
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Subject: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20
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Hi!

I installed freebsd 4.1 on a IBM Thinkpad T20. What happens is that the
computer won't boot at all, not even from floppy or CD-rom. It is not
even possible to enter the bios setup.

If I remove the hardrive, then it is possible to boot from floppy/cd-rom
and it is possible to get into the bios setup.

First I thougt the hardrive wa faulty but I inserted the drive into my
IBM Thinkpad 600X and it booted fine.

The only way to "solve" the problem was to remove the FreeBSD partition
when the drive was inserted as the second drive in my TP 600X.

What is this all about? Who paid IBM to refuse FreeBSD but allow Linux?
:-)

Does anyone have any tips of how to successfully install freebsd on a
T20?

regards,	jonas


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