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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:48:15 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        stannous@cisco.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices)
Message-ID:  <3A7EBD2F.39698F2@eng.ufl.edu>

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> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:36:29 -0500
> From: Sam Tannous <stannous@cisco.com>
> Subject: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices)
> 
> I read the various posts of problems installing
> freebsd (I'm using 4.2 stable) on an IBM thinkpad
> T20.  The laptop freezes up (the BIOS apparently
> can't handle a type 165 (0xA5) partition) and
> the machine is completely useless.  Several people
> suggested that type 166 (or even 133) would work.
> I tried this with the freebsd-stable installer and
> I was never able to create slices.  Has anyone had
> any luck with an older version of the T20 BIOS?
> Newer version?  I'm using 1.09.
> 
>[...]

Two or three days ago I read that IBM just released 
a BIOS upgrade that solves this problem.  You might 
want to check with IBM support.

I think this is what I was reading:
http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1555

- Bob


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