From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 19 12:42: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CD237B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evenson@panix.com) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807BB48CBA for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id PAA14370; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:33:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: evenson set sender to evenson@panix.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Thinkpad X20 2662-34U lockup problem From: Mark Evenson Date: 19 Apr 2001 15:33:00 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have run into the dreaded "Thinkpad BIOS thinks it wants to sleep on the FreeBSD partition" problem. I have searched the freebsd-mobile archives, and read the information on the BSDToday forum at: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/November/News342.html unfortunately the link to the IBM support desription at http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html now seems to be gone. -- My tale of woe: I had thought that the newer BIOS updates solved this problem, as I had updated the Embedded Controller Program to 1.27 and the BIOS to 'izet92ww'. After using System Commander 2000 to resize the Windows 98 partition, I had moved it to the end of the disk and was able to sucessfully install FreeBSD 4.2 on the first 8 GB of the drive but as the third FDISK partition. The FreeBSD installation somehow prevented SC2000 from working, so I installed the FreeBSD boot0 on the MBR. Now FreeBSD would boot, but Windows 98 wouldn't (I think SC2000 replaces the first sector of Windows 98 with its own bootblock, but I am not so sure). Since I would like to have a copy of Windows 98 around to test Java compatibilty, I eventually tried to revive the Windows 98 partition. This failed until IBM could ship me a "Repair CD" (they apparently don't ship with a complete Windows 98 repair image anymore). While waiting for this CD to arrive and having messed up the FreeBSD partition in the attempt to revive the Windows 98 partition, I decided to reformat the disk to re-install FreeBSD. After installing FreeBSD and going into the reboot, the machine now completely locks at the BIOS startup screen, neither allowing me to enter BIOS setup (via F1) nor to specify an alternate boot device (via F12). Interestingly, removing the hard drive still does not let the machine boot to floppy and/or CDROM. -- Questions for those who might have answers: 1) Have I now somehow voided my warranty with IBM, or can I ship it back to demand that they reinstall Windows 98 from scratch? Or should I play dumb when I go to return it? 2) So the most recent IBM BIOS for the X20 still locks up on detecting partition A5. Is there an older version of the BIOS that does not have this problem? Or to get FreeBSD running do I have to switch to a different partition ID? Are there patches somewhere to deal with this? 3) Can I add my name somewhere to register my dissatisfaction with IBM for this sad state of affairs with respect to FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message