From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 13:34: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xfw.transarc.ibm.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4A537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@transarc.ibm.com) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by xfw.transarc.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id QAA48576 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id QAA00719 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: More info on Thinkpad install problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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