On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 06:16:22PM +0000, Nik Clayton scribbled:
| x-posting to -hackers
|
| On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:18:05PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
| > > <qandaentry>
| > > + <question id="boot-on-thinkpad">
| > > + <para>I have an IBM Thinkpad A20p that FreeBSD installs on, but then
| > > + the machine locks up on next boot. How can I solve this?</para>
| > > + </question>
| >
| > I'd start with "I have an IBM ThinkPad in the A, T, or X series...". My
| > wonderful (actually it *is*, now that this problem's solved) T20 crapped
| > out to start this off.
|
| Is there any way we can detect this at boot time, or sysinstall time? It
| would be nice to throw up a
|
| WARNING
|
| You are attempting to install on an IBM ThinkPad A, T, or X series
| machine.
|
| A BIOS bug makes it likely that FreeBSD's default install will leave
| your computer in an unbootable state.
|
| Unless you have read and are planning to follow the instructions at
| http://www.FreeBSD.org/faq/... you should exit this install
| immediately.
I do not think that is possible, since the machine is seen as a
normal PC like everything else. Unless you wish to somehow
have sysinstall look at the BIOS version....ew..
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