Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:57:54 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel@pelleg.org> To: Khairil Yusof <khairil@apdip.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 Message-ID: <u2sactbchz1.fsf@lank.wburn> In-Reply-To: <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> (Khairil Yusof's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:46:49 %2B0800") References: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my>
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Khairil Yusof <khairil@apdip.net> 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
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