Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:10:19 -0700 From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: Philip Rueegsegger <phibo@phibo.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 Message-ID: <200207190010.g6J0AJME085129@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207180014330.1020-100000@korben> References: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207180014330.1020-100000@korben>
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--==_Exmh_-1610366991P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If memory serves me right, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Rueegsegger wrote: [ThinkPad BIOS problem] > I guess you have hit a known bug in older Thinkpad BIOSes. These BIOSes > treat partitions of type "n * 16 + 5" (for any value of n) as DOS > hibernation partitions. FreeBSDs partition type is 165... > > I don't know why this bug affects the whole notebook, but it was > documented more than a year ago IIRC. Maybe a BIOS upgrade (before > installing FreeBSD!) solves the problem. There's also a FAQ entry for this (beware possible line-wrappage): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1610366991P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9N1jr2MoxcVugUsMRAsC7AJ9vMxioS6aTwZwGg1SA17vP0kFOOQCgrNNv q2yaUgsXJAXzN5/R8u/DDL0= =A9TU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1610366991P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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