From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 7:53:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from magneto.precisioncs.net (pcsi2.coast.net [207.158.140.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063FD37B42C for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:53:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason (jason.office.precisioncs.net [131.107.2.223]) by magneto.precisioncs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA15965; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:52:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from username@cac.net) Message-ID: <003101c02180$1b6358c0$df026b83@jason> From: "Jason" To: "Jonas Bulow" Cc: References: <39C62A47.3B9C7FBF@servicefactory.se> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:52:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like maybe the MBR got FUBAR. How did you go about the partitioning and labeling? did you install a boot manager? -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonas Bulow" To: Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message