IBM ThinkPad T20

[Marcin Jessa]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:13:50 -0400
chris <wacky at wacky.ws> wrote:

:On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:57:47 +0000
:Marcin Jessa <lists at yazzy.org> wrote:
:
:> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:07:54 -0400
:> chris <wacky at 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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