From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 14: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE5437B55E for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E9A132E1 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:05:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00599; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002162217.OAA00599@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "David E. Cross" Cc: Gerald Abshez , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:43:23 EST." <200002161853.NAA52160@cs.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:17:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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