Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:48:15 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: stannous@cisco.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices) Message-ID: <3A7EBD2F.39698F2@eng.ufl.edu>
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> ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:36:29 -0500 > From: Sam Tannous <stannous@cisco.com> > Subject: thinkpad t20 woes (creating slices) > > 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. > >[...] Two or three days ago I read that IBM just released a BIOS upgrade that solves this problem. You might want to check with IBM support. I think this is what I was reading: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1555 - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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