Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:27:07 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Andy@EffNet.Com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, tony@ncsa.uiuc.edu, netdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu, charlie@infoworks.net, lebel@lebel.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 rejects FreeBSD Message-ID: <p04330107b641beb9d50d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200011220524.eAM5ODK06685@Gotska.IJP.Si> References: <200011220524.eAM5ODK06685@Gotska.IJP.Si>
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At 6:22 AM +0100 11/22/00, Andrej Brodnik (Andy) wrote: >Hi there, > >any progress/solution regarding this problem? My T20 doesn't >boot either if I label a partition as FreeBSD partition (type 165). >When I change the type of partition to 131 it works again >(unfortunatelly without FreeBSD booting). > >I would appreciate a lot your answers. I am afraid that we (here at RPI) haven't really investigated this all that much more. For our purposes, we can dual-boot the original Win98 install and any FreeBSD install, and for most people that is "good enough". We never have figured out how to dual-boot WinNT and FreeBSD, or if there is any way to have a T20 laptop which is only running FreeBSD. The problem is that once people do get their laptops working (with the Win98/FreeBSD dual-boot), then they suddenly lose interest in experimenting with re-installations... :-) I wouldn't mind experimenting, but I don't own one of the T20's and I don't feel much like spending >$2500 to get one... In our case, we used Partition Magic to shrink the original partition (which was a Win98 install). We usually shrink the Win98 partition to be a little less than 8 gig. We then install freebsd in a new partition in the space which has been freed up. I realize that is not much help, but that is about all we have done with it. -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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