From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 14:28:35 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 1AB0137B538; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51A1132EF; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from eccles.salk.edu (eccles [198.202.70.120]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09636; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:28:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:28:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol To: Mike Smith Cc: "David E. Cross" , Gerald Abshez , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image In-Reply-To: <200002162217.OAA00599@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. > I'd like to help look at this. I have a ThinkPad 770 and it too exhibits this behavior. Unfortunately it's my only laptop so I can't loan it out but I certainly would like to help out if I can. I've got an up-to-date -current running. What code should I look at in sys/boot and how do I figure out where the Thinkpad BIOS puts the emulated floppy image's disk number? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message