Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:05:40 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Tony Rimovsky <tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <v04210103b6078eb258d4@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20001009083730.A11181@ncsa.uiuc.edu> References: <20001009083730.A11181@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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At 8:37 AM -0500 10/9/00, Tony Rimovsky wrote: >Do you have any insight as to why the T20's can run FreeBSD at RPI? >We have two of them and have tried just about every combination of >BIOSs and installations we can think of and still can't get the >laptop to get past the drive check if the drive has a freebsd >partition anywhere on it. Our current theory is that we luck out because we have a dual-boot with Win98 situation. One of our professors wanted WinNT on their T20, and last I heard we couldn't get that to work. It seems to be the same problem that others are reporting, but we haven't had time to really try to pin it down. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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