Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:13:50 -0400 From: chris <wacky@wacky.ws> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 Message-ID: <20051001221350.03997437@eclipse.wacky.ws> In-Reply-To: <20051002015747.59ee1f08.lists@yazzy.org> References: <20051001200754.3ff82b39@eclipse.wacky.ws> <20051002015747.59ee1f08.lists@yazzy.org>
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--Signature_Sat__1_Oct_2005_22_13_50_-0400_qd4LpREuGtlPyxId Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > :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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > :My question is, I have an older ThinkPad 570=20 > :that does not have a CD or floppy drive or working usb port.=20 > :I can take the HDD out of the T20 > :and put it in the 570 and it works fine. The=20 > :problem is that due to > :the lack of secondary boot device I cant wipe=20 > :the disk.=20 > 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-T= HINKPAD >=20 > :Does anyone > :have any suggestions on a way to get around this?=20 >=20 > Network boot with PXE?=20 I dont know awhole 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?=20 >=20 > :If all else fails I > :can toss the HDD in my girlfrieds laptop sometime=20 > :this week or purchase an adaptor to attach the HDD to my > :workstation.=20 > :Either way any input at all would be appreciated. : >=20 > Cheers, > Marcin >=20 > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --=20 Christopher Johnson - <wacky@wacky.ws> =20 --Signature_Sat__1_Oct_2005_22_13_50_-0400_qd4LpREuGtlPyxId Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDP0JiiCWVx3yJMsURAn1HAJ0TAXNigciE7/pt0hJIVB9ie9vtDQCfbnbA nMxXTVN2lJG4Aa8sxk6suDU= =A4IQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__1_Oct_2005_22_13_50_-0400_qd4LpREuGtlPyxId--
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