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Date:      Mon, 01 Nov 1999 08:46:51 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
Cc:        Steve Gailey <Steve.Gailey@db.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Thinkpad 600 
Message-ID:  <199911011646.IAA19168@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 13:58:38 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.991101134731.29334A-100000@uk2.imdb.com> 

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> > 
> > The machine just hangs and needs a physical reset during the 
> > probes, just after finding the CD. I have tried disabling not required 
> > for the install, but without any success.
...
> I have a Thinkpad 770 that showed similar hanging problems.
> 
> The cause is the Thinkpad's use of about 0.5mb of its memory for itself.
> You need to boot with a kernel that doesn't try to use memory that's
> reserved for the hardware.

A 3.3 kernel with VM86 defined, or a 4.x kernel should work properly on 
this hardware, since both will use the BIOS to determine which parts of 
physical memory are available.
-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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