Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:34:42 +1300 From: kit <kit@hypostasis.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: kit <kit@hypostasis.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad BIOS status Message-ID: <20021226123442.GA48814@amethyst.hypostasis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021224204044.BE4C35D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20021221145541.GA38624@amethyst.hypostasis.com> <20021224204044.BE4C35D04@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:40:44PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:55:41 +1300 > > From: kit <kit@hypostasis.com> > > > > 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.) Kevin Thanks for this as well as the explanation and timing - I think I got caught by the reintroduction of the bug the last time. I've now applied the current 1.12 and all seems well thanks agains --kit -- whois -h whois.gandi.net KM78-GANDI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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