From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 8: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oden.exmandato.se (oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F81437B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from servicefactory.se (root@oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by oden.exmandato.se (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06817; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:09:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <39C6301F.8D2F466A@servicefactory.se> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:09:19 +0200 From: Jonas Bulow X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 References: <39C62A47.3B9C7FBF@servicefactory.se> <003101c02180$1b6358c0$df026b83@jason> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Jason wrote: > > Sounds like maybe the MBR got FUBAR. How did you go about the partitioning > and labeling? did you install a boot manager? But the disk works if I put it into a thinkpad 600X or an old thinkpad 770 so the MBR can't be broken. I installed the freebsd boot manager. I tried to install a "standard" MBR but that didn't change the symptoms. I found it weird that I can't boot from a floppy if I have freebsd on the harddrive. And yes, "removable media" is the first bootable media. /jonas > > -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