From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 10: 5: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F5237B402; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:05:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17008; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24154; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14886.38595.425732.755712@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:51 -0700 (MST) To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Gunnar Flygt , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's In-Reply-To: <200011301739.eAUHdjk00582@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> References: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se> <200011301739.eAUHdjk00582@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is this really the situation, that FreeBSD is not booting on the latest > > IBM thinkpads? That would really be a pity, since I was going to buy > > such a nice little beast after newyear. > > > > http://bsdtoday.com/2000/November/News342.html > > You know, this really isn't a -stable question. > > If you go read the mailing list archives for freebsd-mobile in, say, the > last few days, you'll see all that's currently known on the subject of > getting FreeBSD to work on a T20 or any of recent siblings. You can > start with this message, which kicked off the whole thing: > > <3A23C3D2.E8C59D1E@servicefactory.se> > > As I read it, some people have had success and others haven't. It's > difficult to figure out what the problem is, since there are so many > variables involved and the messages in the thread don't always have the > details needed to fully analyze the problem. I think Ken Key's experience points to it being a partitionID problem, since he's done the most testing. My testing was much more slipshod... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message