From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 16:17:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7653316A4D0 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:17:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5522843E7C for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:57:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090845A53; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:57:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id 64F634342; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:57:55 -0500 (EST) To: Khairil Yusof References: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:57:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> (Khairil Yusof's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:46:49 +0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: eol1@yahoo.com cc: Arne Schwabe cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:18:01 -0000 Khairil Yusof writes: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:04 -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote: >> > >> Has anybody gotten FreeBSD 5.3 to run ok on a Thinkpad X40? >> > >> >> >> On all the recent X series I have owned (pretty much them all), you need to >> boot into windows (ugh), run the thinkpad configuration tool, and disable the >> secondary ATA controller. As Arne suggested, this has no noticable effect on >> anything ... laptop still works fine, base station (w/ CDROM) works just fine, >> etc etc. Once this has been accomplished, FreeBSD 5.x installs and runs with >> no problems. Been running it every since the X40 came out. >> > > Thank you Arne and Peter for the solution! > > I wonder why IBM just doesn't include a BIOS option for it :(. > > Unfortunately for me, I no longer have my Windows partition, so I'll > have to create a dos boot floppy disk and run the ps2.exe dos utilities > off of it. So I'm off to find a usb floppy drive now. > > Again thanks, you guys just made my weekend. > No need for a USB floppy. Once you have the floppy image in a file boot.img, place it in a new directory, cd to that directory, and then: mkisofs -r -b boot.img -c boot.catalog -o ../bootcd.iso . You can now burn bootcd.iso to a CD-R, and boot from it on your USB CD-ROM. -- Dan Pelleg