Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:05:34 +0000 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: chris <wacky@wacky.ws> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 Message-ID: <20051002140534.4329c21e.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20051001221350.03997437@eclipse.wacky.ws> References: <20051001200754.3ff82b39@eclipse.wacky.ws> <20051002015747.59ee1f08.lists@yazzy.org> <20051001221350.03997437@eclipse.wacky.ws>
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On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:13:50 -0400 chris <wacky@wacky.ws> wrote: :On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:57:47 +0000 :Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote: : :> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:07:54 -0400 :> chris <wacky@wacky.ws> wrote: :> :> :I recently came across an older Thinkpad T20. Unfortunatly I wasnt :> :aware of the bios problem untill after a fresh install of :> 5.4-release :took place and I rebooted. :> :> What BIOS problems? : :Take a look at the url I posted at the end of my message. :A brief description of the problem is that the current bios on the :laptop recognizes sysid 165 as a FAT suspend to disk option. :I wasnt aware of this and installed FreeBSD on this laptop. :Now my problem is that the machine wont boot. It doesnt get past the :bios screen. I cant boot with anything (the cd drive) as long as the :HDD is in the machine. I dont know awole lot about flashing bios :from a cd. The flash update I got from ibm.com was a self exctractor :that created a floppy on a windows machine. I took the files and burned :them onto a cd and tried this without the HDD in the machine and it :would not work. :> :> :My question is, I have an older ThinkPad 570 :> :that does not have a CD or floppy drive or working usb port. :> :I can take the HDD out of the T20 :> :and put it in the 570 and it works fine. The :> :problem is that due to :> :the lack of secondary boot device I cant wipe :> :the disk. :> I don't understand, why would you want to do that? :Take a look at the work around on :http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD :> :> :Does anyone :> :have any suggestions on a way to get around this? :> :> Network boot with PXE? : :I dont know a whole lot about network booting. I wonder if this older :ThinkPad 570 supports it. I assume this should be pretty straight :forward to setup if its supported? Take a look at: http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml It explains how to do network booting. What network device do you have in your lapper ? :> :If all else fails I :> :can toss the HDD in my girlfrieds laptop sometime :> :this week or purchase an adaptor to attach the HDD to my :> :workstation. :> :Either way any input at all would be appreciated. : :> :> Cheers, :> Marcin :> :> P.S Can you set message wrapping to 72 chars in your sylpheed? :No problem, It shows that it was set to wrap at 72. I changed it to :71. See if that make a difference. :> _______________________________________________
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