From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 22: 5:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D84837B40E; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA17350; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:05:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21251; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:05:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15237.57511.323136.315975@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:05:43 -0600 To: Stephen Krauth Cc: Kevin Oberman , Greg Smith , Nate Williams , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "No disks found!" when installing 4.3 on Thinkpad In-Reply-To: References: <200108231535.f7NFZNR29456@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that I got it working, though I > still don't know what was wrong. With nothing to lose, I decided to > just try the mysterious 'Initialize' option in the BIOS East-Setup > menu and it magically fixed the problem. I think it sets all the BIOS settings to the defaults. > As an aside, I couldn't boot into the installer from any FreeBSD CD > that I have (4.3, 4.1, 3.2 and even 2.2.7). I always get "Can't find > 'kernel'" and "Can't fine 'kernel.old'", or a complete hang in 2.2.7. This is a known bug, and should be fixed in 4.4. (The FreeBSD bootblocks needed special massaging to work on IBM's hardware.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message