From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 18 17:10:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5176137B400; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FA343E6A; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020719001022.KLNT26053.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:10:22 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6J0ALeU085135; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6J0AJME085129; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207190010.g6J0AJME085129@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Lukas Ertl Cc: Philip Rueegsegger , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 In-Reply-To: References: Comments: In-reply-to Lukas Ertl message dated "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:20:25 +0200." From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@acm.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1610366991P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1610366991P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If memory serves me right, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Rueegsegger wrote: [ThinkPad BIOS problem] > I guess you have hit a known bug in older Thinkpad BIOSes. These BIOSes > treat partitions of type "n * 16 + 5" (for any value of n) as DOS > hibernation partitions. FreeBSDs partition type is 165... > > I don't know why this bug affects the whole notebook, but it was > documented more than a year ago IIRC. Maybe a BIOS upgrade (before > installing FreeBSD!) solves the problem. There's also a FAQ entry for this (beware possible line-wrappage): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1610366991P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9N1jr2MoxcVugUsMRAsC7AJ9vMxioS6aTwZwGg1SA17vP0kFOOQCgrNNv q2yaUgsXJAXzN5/R8u/DDL0= =A9TU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1610366991P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message