From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 08:27:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA24613 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA24604 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa24774; 4 Oct 96 11:23 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17669; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA14143; Fri, 4 Oct 96 11:23:24 EDT Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:23:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Help installing to a ThinkPad 750C In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I posted before about having keyboard problmes when installing > > 2.1.5 to a ThinkPad 750C. > > > > Any thing I have missed? If I cannot figure this out soon, I'm > > going to have to admitt defeat. > > Did you poke through the mail archives on http://www.freebsd.org? This > has been discussed (and fixed) quite a few times recently. Yes, I have. Either it wasn't that recent or the search/index engine was failing me. Searching under "thinkpad", "install", "keyboard" and "boot" only got me indirect references to a custom install floppy. It wasn't until someone else having problems installing 2.1.5 on a think pad told me there was a tpad.flp that I had any useful success with the searches. This floppy does work, but for some reason the one I made with my 2.1.5 system doesn't quite cut it. If I could have some additional search hints it would be appreciated. If there is a fix in the archives, I am missing it. To the best of my knowlege, all I need to do is edit the GENERIC configuration to use pcvt instead of syscons, and make a boot.flp form /usr/src/release. Since this produces a new boot.flp that does indeed use pcvt when it boots, I am at a loss as to what else could be the problem. As I said, the 2.1.0 that Nate put in freefall does boot fine. If it comes down to it, I will install 2.1.0 from my CD's, so it won't be a total loss situation. :-/ cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/