Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron <pat@transarc.ibm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: More info on Thinkpad install problem Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010725162455.25146C-100000@smithfield.transarc.ibm.com>
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A couple of days ago, I sent a note about some problems I was having installing FreeBSD 4.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 385XD from CD-ROM. I've just verified that the problem also exists for FreeBSD 4.3. Here is a transcript of what happened when I tried to boot the Thinkpad a FreeBSD 4.3 install CD: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/97088kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com, Sat Apr 21 08:46:19 GMT 2001) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok ----------------------------------------------------------------------- And that's pretty much as far as I get. This worked fine with FreeBSD 4.0 (which uses version 0.7 of the bootstrap loader). I've been looking through the code to see if I can spot a relevant change between 4.0 and 4.2, but haven't come up with anything. If I use the 4.0 loader that's already installed on the hard drive to boot the kernel off of the 4.2 CD, the kernel loads and the installation starts, but when I try to select media options, I get a message that no CDROM devices were detected. Any hints about how to solve these problems would be greatly appreciated! --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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