From: Karl-Petter Åkesson (kalle_at_sics.se)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 04:21:54 EST
I managed to solve this problem. The BIOS does not lockup when the big
drive is set to slave! So booting from and installing the root on a
128Mb PCMCIA flashcard solved all!
Kalle
Karl-Petter Åkesson wrote:
>
> Thanks for the link, James, it helped me pass the lockup by installing
> Dynamic Drive Overlay but DDO confused the FreeBSD installer. The FDISK
> program that comes with the installation either thinks the drive starts
> at sector -63 and cant create the FreeBSD partition, or if I use the
> Disk Manager to create the partition the FreeBSD installation cannot
> change the type to FreeBSD. Someone on the list that has experience in
> solving these issues?
>
> Kalle
>
> "James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> >
> > Too big a drive for that poor, old Thinkpad. Download the Linux version of Disk
> > Manager 2000 from:
> > http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm#Installation read the
> > instructions here: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/dm2klinux.htm
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > James
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Karl-Petter Akesson [mailto:kalle_at_sics.se]
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:27 PM
> > > To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> > > Subject: [560] Lockup during boot with new 20Gb HD
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I just found this list and I hope someone can provide me with some info
> > > about my problem.
> > >
> > > An old 560 servers as a FTP server here. Had the original drive in when
> > > I installed FreeBSd and the FTP server. Everything has worked fine for
> > > quite some time. THough I started to run out of disk space:-)
> > >
> > > So I ordered a new 20Gb HD to solve that. Though the problem is that it
> > > some how locks my thinkpad. After have mounted the HD in the laptop, I
> > > turn on the power, see teh IBM and ThinkPad Logo. Hear the beep but then
> > > nothing else happens.
> > >
> > > I pressed F1 and entered the config and tested the drive, no problems
> > > reported. Tried to connect it with an adapter to my PC, worked just fine
> > > and I formatted it without any problems. So hte HD seems to be ok!
> > >
> > > So what is wrong? Is it to large to work with the TP560? Another idea
> > > was that it consumes to much power? Any help is very welcome!
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Kalle
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:57:57 EST