From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 14:53:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43248150B0 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.197]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA2E4F; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:53:15 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA23947; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:53:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:53:04 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Kevin Oberman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD-Release on IBM ThinkPad 600E Message-ID: <20000118235304.S12908@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <200001182144.NAA31980@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001182144.NAA31980@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:44:41PM -0800 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000118 22:51], Kevin Oberman (oberman@es.net) wrote: >I would like to install FreeBSD on my IBM ThinkPad 600E, but I am >unable to boot. Using the boot floppy images that boot fine on both my >PII-366 and K6-3-450 systems on the IBM hangs while probing the >system. It gets to PNP and locks up. I must disconnect the battery to >get the system to free up and reboot Windows 98. _Which_ FreeBSD Release? We only had like ehm 15 or so. Secondly, try a bootdisk from current.freebsd.org and see if that works, that way we know that we tackled all problems with the current codebase. Very much has changed from 3.x -> 4.0 -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Of course I can't say, whether it will become better if it gets changed; but as much as I can say, it must change if it shall become good... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message