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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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