Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:52:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Adam Ulmer <aulmer@veriohosting.com> To: Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009201829450.85942-100000@orca.orem.veriohosting.com> In-Reply-To: <39C7751E.50409F63@servicefactory.se>
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I tried to install freebsd 4.1 on a Thinkpad A20m. I went through several permutations and ended up with a useless brick each time. (All while trying to attend USENIX! Very frustrating to work from a hotel room.) I too thought that I had to get a second hard but after 3 to 6 hours I was able to duplicate and repair (no data loss) the process. I had to have IBM cancel the fedex of a new drive. :P The machine has 12GB harddrive and partition magic 5.0 rescue disks were used to make equally sized partitions for the default win2k, redhat, and freebsd. Unfortunately, I could get freebsd installed but never to boot. I even stumbled into getting the freebsd bootmanager installed and it would boot the win2k partition. I could not repeat that, though. The win2k has data that needs to stay intact as my co-workers also use the thinkpad so the experimentation had to end. As soon as I get the laptop back I will try to get a bootmanager installed (LILO, perhaps). If anyone has any recommendations, I'm open to other ideas (but the laptop has to boot 3 different OS's). Also, everyone that I met at the USENIX conference that ran freebsd on a laptop ran -current and not 4.1. Sadly, I did not meet anyone else that had an A20 (or T20). So I guess I am reporting some partial success WRT freebsd 4.1 on the new thinkpads, but not a complete success. :( I'll be sure to report to freebsd-mobile when I have full success. Adam Ulmer On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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