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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:52:58 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Adam Ulmer <aulmer@veriohosting.com>
To:        Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD  Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009201829450.85942-100000@orca.orem.veriohosting.com>
In-Reply-To: <39C7751E.50409F63@servicefactory.se>

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I tried to install freebsd 4.1 on a Thinkpad A20m.  I went through several
permutations and ended up with a useless brick each time.  (All while
trying to attend USENIX!  Very frustrating to work from a hotel room.)  

I too thought that I had to get a second hard but after 3 to 6 hours I was
able to duplicate and repair (no data loss) the process.  I had to have
IBM cancel the fedex of a new drive. :P

The machine has 12GB harddrive and partition magic 5.0 rescue disks were
used to make equally sized partitions for the default win2k, redhat, and
freebsd. Unfortunately, I could get freebsd installed but never to boot.  
I even stumbled into getting the freebsd bootmanager installed and it
would boot the win2k partition.  I could not repeat that, though.  The
win2k has data that needs to stay intact as my co-workers also use the
thinkpad so the experimentation had to end.

As soon as I get the laptop back I will try to get a bootmanager installed
(LILO, perhaps).  If anyone has any recommendations, I'm open to other
ideas (but the laptop has to boot 3 different OS's).  

Also, everyone that I met at the USENIX conference that ran freebsd on a
laptop ran
-current and not 4.1.  Sadly, I did not meet anyone else that had an A20
(or T20).

So I guess I am reporting some partial success WRT freebsd 4.1 on the new
thinkpads, but not a complete success.  :(  I'll be sure to report to
freebsd-mobile when I have full success.

Adam Ulmer

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote:

> A follow-up on my own problem.
> 
> The T20 does not allow a partition type of 165. If I change it to 131
> (ext2fs) the computer boots fine. Otherwise, as I explained earlier, the
> computer hangs before it is even possible to enter the bios setup.
> 
> Does anyone on this list use a IBM thinkpad T20 or A20 with FreeBSD?
> 
> /j
> 
> 
> Jonas Bulow wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I installed freebsd 4.1 on a IBM Thinkpad T20. What happens is that the
> > computer won't boot at all, not even from floppy or CD-rom. It is not
> > even possible to enter the bios setup.
> > 
> > If I remove the hardrive, then it is possible to boot from floppy/cd-rom
> > and it is possible to get into the bios setup.
> > 
> > First I thougt the hardrive wa faulty but I inserted the drive into my
> > IBM Thinkpad 600X and it booted fine.
> > 
> > The only way to "solve" the problem was to remove the FreeBSD partition
> > when the drive was inserted as the second drive in my TP 600X.
> > 
> > What is this all about? Who paid IBM to refuse FreeBSD but allow Linux?
> > :-)
> > 
> > Does anyone have any tips of how to successfully install freebsd on a
> > T20?
> > 
> > regards,        jonas
> > 
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