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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:04:04 +0200
From:      Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se>
To:        Dave Haas <dave@netguy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD  Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad  T20
Message-ID:  <39C86F74.16CC3B59@servicefactory.se>
References:  <B17EB4955925D4118CF0006097C59E4901AFA1@PDC>

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Hi!

...
> The rep at IBM Tech Support claims that IBM is aware of this problem. He
> claimed that FreeBSD was "writing the boot sector somewhere above the usual
> boot sector location". His explanation doesn't make sense, and he was unable
> to provide me with any specifics...

That doesn't make sense. The only thing I changed to get the drive
working was to change the partition type of the freebsd partition from
165 to 131. Today I will try to use partition magic to create the
partitions.

/j


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