Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:13:18 -0500 From: Tony Rimovsky <tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <20001010091318.A28511@ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <v04210103b6078eb258d4@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:05:40AM -0400
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We tried a Win98/FreeBSD combination with no luck. Same apparent problem. Once we changed the partition type number for the FBSD partition, the T20 would boot again. Can you get your hands on a T20 with FreeBSD on it that works? I'd like to find out as much about how it is configured as possible (disk layout, bios version, hardware rev., etc.) thanks for any help /tsr On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:05:40AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 8:37 AM -0500 10/9/00, Tony Rimovsky wrote: > >Do you have any insight as to why the T20's can run FreeBSD at RPI? > >We have two of them and have tried just about every combination of > >BIOSs and installations we can think of and still can't get the > >laptop to get past the drive check if the drive has a freebsd > >partition anywhere on it. > > Our current theory is that we luck out because we have a dual-boot > with Win98 situation. One of our professors wanted WinNT on their > T20, and last I heard we couldn't get that to work. It seems to > be the same problem that others are reporting, but we haven't had > time to really try to pin it down. > > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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