From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 2:10:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f149.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7E937B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:10:22 -0800 Received: from 61.9.170.232 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:10:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [61.9.170.232] From: "Aaron Hill" To: bob@eng.ufl.edu, stannous@cisco.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Thinkpad T20 now works! (was: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices)) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:10:22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2001 10:10:22.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[042B9A50:01C09025] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I read the various posts of problems installing > > freebsd (I'm using 4.2 stable) on an IBM thinkpad > > T20. The laptop freezes up (the BIOS apparently > > can't handle a type 165 (0xA5) partition) and > >[...] > >Two or three days ago I read that IBM just released >a BIOS upgrade that solves this problem. You might >want to check with IBM support. > >I think this is what I was reading: >http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1555 > Yes, IBM has released v1.10 T20 and T21 BIOS which fixes, among other things, the laptops inability to boot from partitions with ... "partition ID of n5h.(n is 1 or greater)". Here's the T20 BIOS... http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4JWNJC.html Here's the T21 BIOS... http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4PJN8Y.html So please upgrade those T20 and T21's to BIOS 1.10 before attempting a FreeBSD install and all should work. Aaron Hill _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message