Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

Confirmed. Boots OK as expected for my ThinkPad T420 (has buggy BIOS).

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:54:09 -0400
Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2015-07-12 09:24, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> >
> > As far as I could confirm currently,
> >
> >    *My ThinkPad didn't boot from decompressed .xz image written in
> >     memstick.
> >
> >    *The partition tables (both PMBR and GPT) looks fine.
> >     (As expected. Verified with `gpart show` and `fdisk -p -v da0`)
> >
> >    *Overwriting bootcode (gptzfsboot) in GPT partition 1 didn't help.
> >
> >
> > Not yet confirmed, but possible cause would be
> >
> >    *Bootcode in PMBR is missing or corrupt.
> >      (I noticed I hadn't tested overwriting it.)
> >
> >    */boot in ZFS partition or anything related is not proper.
> >
> >
> > Sorry, I cannot reboot my ThinkPad right now.
> > Allan, can you confirm above?
> >
> 
> You are correct, the PMBR bootcode was missing, my mistake.
> 
> I have uploaded new images (and set the old ones to redirect to the new 
> ones)
> 
> compressed (193 MiB):
> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/lenovofix_20150712-r285132.img.xz
> 
> uncompressed (1 GiB):
> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/lenovofix_20150712-r285132.img
> 
> 
> 
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> Allan Jude
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