From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 13: 3:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 13:03:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6666337B401 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eB5L3AJ24442; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:03:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200012052103.eB5L3AJ24442@ptavv.es.net> To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Douglas A. Maske" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, charlie@infoworks.net, lebel@lebel.org, jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 ISSUE!!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:18:00 EST." Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:03:10 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: oberman@ptavv.es.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For those who do not subscribe to mobile, it is clearly the partition type that controls the problem. Newer version of BIOS on ThinkPads simply lock up when they see the A5 partition. Older versions still work. Once you ThinkPad is locked up, it is dead until the disk is removed and the partition is either deleted or re-labeled as something other then A5. Bruce Mah of Cisco has hacked the boot0 and other parts of the boot system so that he can now boot FreeBSD on a recent T20 from a partition with a type of A6 (OpenBSD), so there is no question that partition type is the main factor. It looks like BIOS V1.03 works OK with FreeBSD while V1.08 fails. For other versions??? While I love my 600E, I will not consider another unless IBM resolves this issue. (I'm sure FreeBSD will have a work-around much sooner.) If you have contacts at IBM, feel free to let them know just what you think of this foolishness! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message