Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:20:25 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Philip Rueegsegger <phibo@phibo.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207180014330.1020-100000@korben> In-Reply-To: <3D35E300.2090302@phibo.org>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Rueegsegger wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 4.5 on a Thinkpad X21 without having ANY problem in > the installation process. During the final reboot the system was hanging > after shutdown, it didn't reboot. I just powered off and on the machine, > but buuh, it didn't even popup the bootloader menu. Well, rewrite the > master boot record was my first thought. But, wow, I couldn't even boot > from floppy anymore ?!? OK, let's have a look at the BIOS settings, but > arrrgh, I was not able to enter the BIOS menu anymore... I removed the > harddisk, but still, I couldn't enter the BIOS menu. At this moment I > knew, my new thinkpad is not usable anymore. > What the fuck damaged my harddisk ? Have you any idea ? Does anybody of > you experienced this problem too ? I guess you have hit a known bug in older Thinkpad BIOSes. These BIOSes treat partitions of type "n * 16 + 5" (for any value of n) as DOS hibernation partitions. FreeBSDs partition type is 165... I don't know why this bug affects the whole notebook, but it was documented more than a year ago IIRC. Maybe a BIOS upgrade (before installing FreeBSD!) solves the problem. HTH, regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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