From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 8: 5:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B9837B670 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA270840; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:05:41 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20001009083730.A11181@ncsa.uiuc.edu> References: <20001009083730.A11181@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:05:40 -0400 To: Tony Rimovsky From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Was: FreeBSD 4.1 on IBM Thinkpad T20 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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