Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:28:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Gerald Abshez <gerald@manhattanprojects.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002161422410.56320-100000@eccles.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <200002162217.OAA00599@mass.cdrom.com>
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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
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