[ltp] Freeze on Boot

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 00:52:54 -0700, Paul Holman wrote:
> I've just tried to fubar my Thinkpad T21 with PartitionMagic so I could 
> load Linux.  Now the thing won't boot at all.  In fact, I power it on 
> and get the screen that says "F1 for BIOS, F11 for temp boot device" and 
> I hit F1, but it just hangs there.  So I can't even get into the BIOS 
> settings at this point.  It makes no difference whether I have a CD in 
> the drive or not.  I tried to unplug the built in battery, but it is a 
> real pain to get to the connector.  Any other mysterious ways to reset 
> this thing?

Once the drive geometry of the IDE hard disk in my desktop computer was
garbled. It also hangs in the BIOS. Unplugging the hard disk and
disabling the IDE hard disk detection in the BIOS helped but I suspect
this isn't possible in the ThinkPad BIOS. Can you remove the hard disk
and test if your TP boots a bootable CDROM or floppy?

Regards,
Tino

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