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My A, T, or X series IBM Thinkpad locks up when I first booted up my FreeBSD installation. How can I solve this?

April 26, 2017booted FreeBSD IBM installation locks SERIES ThinkPad

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My A, T, or X series IBM Thinkpad locks up when I first booted up my FreeBSD installation. How can I solve this?

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A bug in early revisions of IBM’s BIOS on these machines mistakenly identifies the FreeBSD partition as a potential FAT suspend-to-disk partition. When the BIOS tries to parse the FreeBSD partition it hangs. According to IBM, the following model/BIOS release numbers incorporate the fix.

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A bug in early revisions of IBM’s BIOS on these machines mistakenly identifies the FreeBSD partition as a potential FAT suspend-to-disk partition. When the BIOS tries to parse the FreeBSD partition it hangs. According to IBM[1], the following model/BIOS release numbers incorporate the fix.