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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:50:25 -0400
From:      Jonathan Chen <jon@spock.org>
To:        Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ThinkPad 600X: Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Message-ID:  <20010722095025.A18210@enterprise.spock.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B59FA94.4070109@Talarian.Com>; from Bob@Talarian.Com on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:56:36PM -0500
References:  <3B59FA94.4070109@Talarian.Com>

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Bob Van Valzah wrote:
> I'm running 4.2-RELEASE on a ThinkPad 600X and I'd like to upgrade to 
> 4.3-RELEASE. I have no floppy drive so I'm thinking I have to boot from 
> the CD-ROM to do the upgrade. The ThinkPad's BIOS does attempt to boot 
> from the 4.3 CD-ROM but can't find the kernel:

I have seen the same problem on the 600E, booting from 4.3-RELEASE, -STABLE 
and -CURRENT boot.flp images el-torito'ed onto a CD.  It's not the IRQ 
setting either, since I have that set to use irq15.  I eventually ripped 
out the hard disk and did the install on another live machine under chroot.

-Jon

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