Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:31:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron <pat@transarc.ibm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.2 on Thinkpad 380XD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010723122042.7445F-100000@smithfield.transarc.ibm.com>
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I saw a similar question asked in April with regard to the Thinkpad 600X,
but never saw a solution posted. And now, I am having the same problem...
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 from CD-ROM (CD made from the iso image
on ftp.freebsd.org), on an IBM Thinkpad 380XD. When I boot from the CD,
I get an error that looks something like (this is from memory and from
the previous report in the mailing list archives, so it might be slightly
off....):
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0
Booting [kernel]
can't load 'kernel'
can't load 'kernel.old'
Type '?' for a list of commands....
ok
Installing FreeBSD 4.0 worked just fine on this machine in the past, and
in fact it is still installed. So, I tried to boot the CD using the 4.0
loader (the one that's currently installed on the hard disk) and install.
Booting actually worked, and it appeared that the CD-ROM probed
successfully. But, once I got to the stage where it was asking me to set
the installation media option, sysinstall told me that it could not find
any CD-ROM devices.
So apparently, something happened between 4.0 and 4.2 that makes FreeBSD
unable to use the CD-ROM drive on the Thinkpad. Anyone know if this works
in 4.3? I've tried looking through CVSWEB for a log entry like "Fixed
problem that broke CD-ROM on Thinkpad", but found nothing that seemed
likely.... :-)
Thanks,
--Pat.
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