From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 00:40:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AC016A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 00:40:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1AE43D2D for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 00:40:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dlavigne6@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.2.87] ([70.48.59.224]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20041004004042.ZMLZ2048.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.2.87]>; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:40:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:45:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@dru.domain.org To: Dan Pelleg In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20041003203032.R584@dru.domain.org> References: <20041003120806.M584@dru.domain.org> <8cb27cbf04100311161d726215@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: Jon Drews cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install hangs on IBM Thinkpad X23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:40:44 -0000 On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > I'm about to update that page for -5.X. On my 2662-E5U I successfully > installed 4.5, some early 5 release (either 5.1 or 5.2.1), and > 5.3-beta3. All of them from a USB cd-rom, none of them while docked. I > don't recall ever seeing that error. So at this point I tend to think it's > something that can be fixed by changing some BIOS option. Possibly along > the lines of: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019435.html Yes, I suspect it is a BIOS option. Unfortunately, my current BIOS doesn't have the particular option listed in the above URL. > PS: if you don't have MS-Windows on that machine, and your desired BIOS > change is not supported in the startup menus, you can download the PS2 tool > from IBM's website to change it. At least, in theory you can. In practice, > they don't provide floppy or iso9660 images. You need to ignore the > misleading instructions on: > http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4ZFPEG Not having too much joy at that site. The only MS machine I have access to at the moment is 2000. Internet Explorer was hanging on the "I agree" popup box; now I can't even get it to give me the popup box. Grrr. I downloaded the file no prob in BSD and sneaker-netted it over to 2000 but I get a 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem illegal instruction message whenever I try to run it. Zippo extraction. > And then download the .exe and run it on a Windows machine (not necessarily > a thinkpad). Don't try to run what it extracted - it probably won't > work. But you can copy the UTILITY directory that it creates to a floppy > and run that. > That is, if you have a floppy. I don't. I had to grab images from DOS > floppies, mount them on a vn(4), and manipulate them so I had one image for > a bootable floppy and another one with the contents of the IBM tools. I have the exact opposite problem: built-in floppy, external CDROM attached to a PCMCIA adapter. Hmmm, I wonder if they make adapters that go from the external CDROM to a USB port?? I do believe the NIC has a PROM chip; my best bet might be to make a PXE server and install that way... Dru