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Subject: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD  Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20
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A follow-up on my own problem.

The T20 does not allow a partition type of 165. If I change it to 131
(ext2fs) the computer boots fine. Otherwise, as I explained earlier, the
computer hangs before it is even possible to enter the bios setup.

Does anyone on this list use a IBM thinkpad T20 or A20 with FreeBSD?

/j


Jonas Bulow wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I installed freebsd 4.1 on a IBM Thinkpad T20. What happens is that the
> computer won't boot at all, not even from floppy or CD-rom. It is not
> even possible to enter the bios setup.
> 
> If I remove the hardrive, then it is possible to boot from floppy/cd-rom
> and it is possible to get into the bios setup.
> 
> First I thougt the hardrive wa faulty but I inserted the drive into my
> IBM Thinkpad 600X and it booted fine.
> 
> The only way to "solve" the problem was to remove the FreeBSD partition
> when the drive was inserted as the second drive in my TP 600X.
> 
> What is this all about? Who paid IBM to refuse FreeBSD but allow Linux?
> :-)
> 
> Does anyone have any tips of how to successfully install freebsd on a
> T20?
> 
> regards,        jonas
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