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i have gone through the installation process from the 4.1 cd.  the install
seemed to go well. i tried restarting the machine and it will not even
boot.  it just hangs on the ibm welcome screen.
no response to ctrl alt delete
no reponse to f1 or f12 that are supposed to go to bios and temp boot
device list, respectively.

any suggestions?!

You have a serious problem.  Some deep thinker at IBM chose
partition
type 165 for the suspend-to-disk partition, hard-coded in the
BIOS.
This is being discussed on one of the mailing lists now.  IBM's
position is that
they do not support running *BSD on thier Thinkpads, therefore
no fix
will be offerred.

Sorry.

You will probably have to pull the disk out and "fdisk /mbr" it
in another
computer to recover.  Good luck.

Quote:> i have gone through the installation process from the 4.1 cd.  
> the install
> seemed to go well. i tried restarting the machine and it will
> not even
> boot.  it just hangs on the ibm welcome screen.
> no response to ctrl alt delete
> no reponse to f1 or f12 that are supposed to go to bios and
> temp boot
> device list, respectively.

> any suggestions?!

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this gets interesting...
i swap the drive out and put it ina nearby ThinkPad600E and boot up
fine.  the boot loader starts up, i choose freebsd, i get root, i start x,
la la la.

meanwhile, i put the drive from the 600E into the ThinkPad TPT21 and ~it~
boots up fine now, albeit, into windows 2000. blech.

hummphhh.  i suppose i could fdisk the drive, but i have spent so long
tweaking the kernel install and it does work on this other box.  what
could be the issue...

anyone?!