From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 6:48:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA3737B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07921; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:48:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A7EBD2F.39698F2@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:48:15 -0500 From: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stannous@cisco.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:36:29 -0500 > From: Sam Tannous > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message