From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 05:48:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27A216A4CF for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:48:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.apdip.net (zeus.apdip.net [202.187.94.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A695343D2D for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:48:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khairil@apdip.net) Received: from 192.168.1.5 (unknown [219.95.133.36]) by mail.apdip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C022A4005; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:49:12 +0800 (MYT) From: Khairil Yusof To: eol1@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:46:49 +0800 Message-Id: <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Arne Schwabe cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:48:09 -0000 On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:04 -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote: > > >> Has anybody gotten FreeBSD 5.3 to run ok on a Thinkpad X40? > > >> > > On all the recent X series I have owned (pretty much them all), you need to > boot into windows (ugh), run the thinkpad configuration tool, and disable the > secondary ATA controller. As Arne suggested, this has no noticable effect on > anything ... laptop still works fine, base station (w/ CDROM) works just fine, > etc etc. Once this has been accomplished, FreeBSD 5.x installs and runs with > no problems. Been running it every since the X40 came out. > Thank you Arne and Peter for the solution! I wonder why IBM just doesn't include a BIOS option for it :(. Unfortunately for me, I no longer have my Windows partition, so I'll have to create a dos boot floppy disk and run the ps2.exe dos utilities off of it. So I'm off to find a usb floppy drive now. Again thanks, you guys just made my weekend.