Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:36:29 -0500 From: Sam Tannous <stannous@cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices) Message-ID: <20010204213629.C11820@cisco.com>
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I read the various posts of problems installing freebsd (I'm using 4.2 stable) on an IBM thinkpad T20. The laptop freezes up (the BIOS apparently can't handle a type 165 (0xA5) partition) and the machine is completely useless. Several people suggested that type 166 (or even 133) would work. I tried this with the freebsd-stable installer and I was never able to create slices. Has anyone had any luck with an older version of the T20 BIOS? Newer version? I'm using 1.09. (BTW, you can get the machine to come up if you pull out the hard drive while it's booting up. To remove it, remove the one screw near the headphone jack on the bottom of the machine, open the screen, and gently pull out the drive. You'll need some bootable CDROM (I used a freebsd 4.2 CDROM) in place. Once you see the error message about the missing hard drive, hit any key, the CDROM boots, and push in the hard drive. You can then chance the partition type to something other then 165 with the freebsd installer) Thanks, Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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