Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:17:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: Gerald Abshez <gerald@manhattanprojects.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image Message-ID: <200002162217.OAA00599@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:43:23 EST." <200002161853.NAA52160@cs.rpi.edu>
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> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be > able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do > int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that > for loading the kernel and drivers. The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it would be easy to fix. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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