From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 9:19:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA42937B4CF for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA649088; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:17:14 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200011230517.eAN5H4p08707@Gotska.IJP.Si> References: <200011230517.eAN5H4p08707@Gotska.IJP.Si> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:17:12 -0500 To: Andrej.Brodnik@IMFM.Uni-Lj.SI (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Cc: jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu, netdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu, charlie@infoworks.net, lebel@lebel.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:17 AM +0100 11/23/00, Andrej Brodnik (Andy) wrote: > > Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:27:07 -0500 >> From: Garance A Drosihn >> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD > >> At 6:22 AM +0100 11/22/00, Andrej Brodnik (Andy) wrote: >> > >> >any progress/solution regarding this problem? My T20 doesn't >> >boot either if I label a partition as FreeBSD partition (type 165). >> >When I change the type of partition to 131 it works again >> >(unfortunatelly without FreeBSD booting). >> >> I am afraid that we (here at RPI) haven't really investigated >> this all that much more. For our purposes, we can dual-boot >> the original Win98 install and any FreeBSD install, and for >> most people that is "good enough". We never have figured out >> how to dual-boot WinNT and FreeBSD, or if there is any way to >> have a T20 laptop which is only running FreeBSD. > >So, if I understand this correctly, you can dual-boot Win98 and >FreeBSD on T20? Yes. We have something like 30 ThinkPad T20's which are working quite well with a dual-boot setup. That dual-boot setup is with Win98 as the first partition, and FreeBSD (4.1.1, I think) in a partition which was created by using partition magic to shrink that first partition. I do not know if we were "just lucky", or if there was some step in what we did which solves the problem. And as I said earlier, I do not have a laptop to test with, and the people who DO have these working laptops are not in the mood to run re-installs on them to discover what the magic is. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message