Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:38:32 -0400 From: Sean Owens <player@envirolink.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with thinkpad 750c boot floppy Message-ID: <31F410F7.1F1C@envirolink.org>
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Hardware is a thinkpad 750c with 20M RAM, 170 meg hard disk formatted with win 95 dos, but nothing actually on the hard drive other than command.com, and a 3com etherlink III Lan+modem card (3c562) that wasn't connected to any thing but was in the machine. I tried boot floppies from FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5, written to 3.5" 1.44 meg disks. Tried 2.1.5 first, booted the boot disk, it took a little while, finally got to the install menu but the keyboard worked not at all. I rebooted with dos, tried the keys, worked fine, tried again, realized that it was getting SOME keystrokes but certainly not what I intended it to get. OK, created a boot floppy for 2.1 (using rawrite3.exe) and tried again, pretty much had the same results, took a while to boot, got to the pretty menu, didn't understand keystrokes, although I could, by using the left arrow key, get it to give me a quit menu and thus reboot. Oh, by the way, ctrl-alt-del did not work, neither did pushing the power switch, I had to resort the little button on the back to get it to shutdown. I just retried with the 3com pcmcia card removed, again, no luck, same problem. I look forward to hearing of a solution to this problem, as I'm eager to try freeBSD on my thinkpad. Many thanks. Sean Owens player@envirolink.orghelp
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