Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:10:36 -0700 From: "Kenton A. Hoover" <shibumi@lehub.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770 Message-ID: <199907022310.QAA42161@lacan.lehub.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Jul 1999 23:04:44 -0000." <19990702230444.23749.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>
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I don't know what the difference is, but the TP 600 has the same problem. If APM is off, you get four beeps. If it is on, you get about a dozen beeps. If you play around, you'll notice that the crash is time dependant. On 02 Jul 1999 23:04:44 -0000, Sendmail channeled Dave Walton saying: > Last night, I tried installing 3.2-R on a Thinkpad 770z. I started up with t he > boot floppies (using the floppy drive mounted in the base station) and instal led > > via FTP (using a 3c590 installed in the base station). The install went > smoothly, except where it complained that part of the X distribution wasn't > available on the server(?). > > Then I rebooted from the hard drive. Part way through the boot process, the > computer emitted half a dozen beeps and locked up. I thought that perhaps it > was probing something it shouldn't be, but on subsequent attempts it locked u p > at different points in the boot process. I tried looking around in the visua l > config to make sure that was set up right, but it beeped and locked up while I > was in there, too. > > What could possibly be happening? What can I do to fix it? And why am I hav ing > > this problem booting, when it booted perfectly off the floppies? | Kenton A. Hoover | shibumi@lehub.com | | Head of Technical Operations | | | RedCart.Com/LeHub.Com Inc., San Francisco, CA | +1.415.437.1506 | |===================== http://www.shockwave.org/~shibumi ====================| | I want to die quietly in my sleep like my grandfather. | | Not screaming in terror like his passengers. | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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