Re: IBM ThinkPad T20

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:57:47 +0000
Marcin Jessa <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:07:54 -0400
> chris <[email protected]> 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 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? 
> 
> :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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