Re: Thinkpad BIOS status

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:40:44PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:55:41 +1300
> > From: kit <[email protected]>
> > 
> > For a while there was a problem with thinkpad bioses recognising Freebsd Slices 
> > but then it was fixed and I had an idea that it may have come back in a later
> > revision..  I've not been able to find anything recent but 
> > does anypone know what the current state of the play is and whether the 
> > latest bios for the A20m (1.12 i think) is able to be used?
> 
> All recent BIOS releases have been fine. There was a bug in early BIOS
> releases for several A, X, and T ThinkPads that would cause a system
> lock-up when any partition with the final nibble of 0x5 was
> detected. FreeBSD uses 0xA5, and was caught by this.
> 
> IBM put out a fixed BIOS that worked, but the next update, just a few
> days later, re-introduced the bug. It was removed again, as I recall,
> about 2 weeks later and has not re-appeared.
> 
> If you have a remotely current version of BIOS on an A, R, T, or X
> series ThinkPad, you should be fine. (I am sending this from my T30
> with bios updated about a month ago from the delivered BIOS which also
> worked fine.)

Kevin 

Thanks for this as well as the explanation and timing - I think I got 
caught by the reintroduction of the bug the last time.

I've now applied the current 1.12 and all seems well 


thanks agains 

--kit 

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