From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Dec 24 12:40:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BD537B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B507A43EC2 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:45 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id BE4C35D04; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) To: kit Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad BIOS status In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:55:41 +1300." <20021221145541.GA38624@amethyst.hypostasis.com> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:44 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021224204044.BE4C35D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:55:41 +1300 > From: kit > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi people > > For a while there was a problem with thinkpad bioses recognising Freebsd Slices > but then it was fixed and I had an idea that it may have come back in a later > revision.. I've not been able to find anything recent but > does anypone know what the current state of the play is and whether the > latest bios for the A20m (1.12 i think) is able to be used? All recent BIOS releases have been fine. There was a bug in early BIOS releases for several A, X, and T ThinkPads that would cause a system lock-up when any partition with the final nibble of 0x5 was detected. FreeBSD uses 0xA5, and was caught by this. IBM put out a fixed BIOS that worked, but the next update, just a few days later, re-introduced the bug. It was removed again, as I recall, about 2 weeks later and has not re-appeared. If you have a remotely current version of BIOS on an A, R, T, or X series ThinkPad, you should be fine. (I am sending this from my T30 with bios updated about a month ago from the delivered BIOS which also worked fine.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message