Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:59:50 +0100 (CET) From: Anders Kofoed <none@ak--mailnet.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> Subject: Re: Fw: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk
HI BSD folks!
I happen to have a IBM T20 labtop with 256 MB of ram, which have been
assigned to me as my pc at my job.
Now, as I got the T20 from our IT department, a copy of win2000 was
installed on it, and sadly filled out the entire disk (12GB) as ONE
partition.
In the ROOT of the NTFS partition, which is c:\ on a win2000, I notized
2 files. The 384 MB swap file and the 256 MB mem.dump file - Can't
remember their names (I can get them if you want?).
So I have 256 MB of ram and a memoryDump file of 256 MB.
After having resized it (resizing was the only way IT still would
support it), to 9.5GB it still worked fine.
But after a FreeBSD 4.1.1 installation, it would not boot - like you
described.
When it boots, it searches the partition table on the disk during the
boot sequence. It seems that the following code is then run:
10: if(partitionID == 165) {
20: sleep(10);
30: goto 10;
40: }
I then took the 2,5" disk and put it in my own pc (with a converter),
and remove the bootloader - It would not boot.
I then did all cind of things with a win2000 rescue disk and a win2000
installation cd, trying to recover the boot sequence.
But when I removed the UFS (165) partition, the win2k booted without
problems.
I have one one question to ask: WHY ?
Regards
Anders
On 30 Nov, Morten Seeberg wrote:
> Jeg synes i skulle kontakte jeres leverandør og klage, selvom i måske ikke
> kører FreeBSD, så er det godt at gøre IBM opmærksomme på, at de ikke skal
> pisse på FreeBSD brugere bare fordi reklame værdien ikke er lige så god som
> til IBM.
>
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html
>
> Nedenstående mail er blevet bekræftet af flere på mailinglisterne, som også
> har prøvet.
>
> Forward videre til alle i kender der rører Thinkpads/IBM og FreeBSD.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Smith" <none@msmith--FreeBSD.ORG.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
> To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <none@kg--dccnet.com.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
> Cc: <none@jamin@eecs.umich.edu>; <freebsd-mobile--FreeBSD.ORG.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer
> Thinkpads
>
>
>> > Sugih Jamin wrote:
>> >
>> > > FreeBSD - Unable to boot OS after installation on
>> > > IBM Thinkpad A20, A21, T20, T21, or X20.
>> >
>> > Question: Does IBM reserve space on the HDD of their laptops for system
> BIOS
>> > that would cause such a problem in the event of a dedicated
> installation?
>>
>> No. Some fool at IBM (or whomever they contracted the BIOS development
>> out to) decided to use partition ID 165 for the suspend-to-disk
>> partition, and the IBM BIOS gets very, very upset when it finds what it
>> thinks is an enormous suspend-to-disk partition on the disk.
>>
>> The "right" solution here is to bug IBM to resepect the already-assigned
>> partition ID numbers (if you are a large IBM customer) or to buy a better
>> notebook. If you're stuck with a ThinkPad, there are several viable
>> workarounds that will let you thumb your nose at IBM and get on with your
>> work (see the list archives).
>> --
>> ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
>> rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
>> to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
>> people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
>> V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E
>>
>>
>>
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