From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 26 4:30:22 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 81D4037B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 04:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta203-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta203-rme.xtra.co.nz [210.86.15.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D51643EC5 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 04:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kit@hypostasis.com) Received: from mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.15.141]) by mta203-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20021226123013.VQMJ1199.mta203-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz>; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:30:13 +1300 Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com ([219.88.79.219]) by mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20021226123012.FQOM18554.mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz@amethyst.hypostasis.com>; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:30:12 +1300 Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBQCYjbd048849; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:34:45 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from kit@amethyst.hypostasis.com) Received: (from kit@localhost) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBQCYh3l048848; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:34:43 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:34:42 +1300 From: kit To: Kevin Oberman Cc: kit , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad BIOS status Message-ID: <20021226123442.GA48814@amethyst.hypostasis.com> References: <20021221145541.GA38624@amethyst.hypostasis.com> <20021224204044.BE4C35D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021224204044.BE4C35D04@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:40:44PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:55:41 +1300 > > From: kit > > > > 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