From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 14 16:55:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pita.cisco.com (pita.cisco.com [171.71.68.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A5814DB4 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelr@cisco.com) Received: from cowboy-mr (cowboy-mr.cisco.com [171.70.244.188]) by pita.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA06080 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990414164301.00a347d0@pita.cisco.com> X-Sender: michaelr@pita.cisco.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:53:24 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Reilly Subject: IBM TP 600 In-Reply-To: <36F3F170.6A0B8C36@tinker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anyone have instructions for installing 2.2.8 or 3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 600? FreeBSD seems to have problems with the unique memory structure of this machine and so freezes during or shortly after boot. Usually there are three - four beeps before the freeze. My machine has 128MB of memory. When I couldn't get FreeBSD installed I tried BSDI. It failed in the same way until BSDI's tech support told me the MEMSIZ switch is needed at boot time - you specify a value for memory size which is at least 640 kb less than the actual memory installed in the machine. BSDI now runs without any problems FWIW - The comment from the BSDI tech support person was that he thought IBM had 0 bytes of memory on the system board instead of the usual 640kb and that a portion of the extended memory is used as the lower 640 kb by tricks in the hardware. Hence the memory probe during boot finds extended memory which is actually in use by the machine as the bottom 640kb. I'd like to run FreeBSD on my TP 600 but so far no luck. Thanks for any help, michael ---- Michael Reilly michaelr@cisco.com Cisco Systems - Santa Cruz, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message