From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 22 17:12:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA23691 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kodakr.kodak.com (kodakr.kodak.com [150.220.251.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23681 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msd1 ([150.103.113.11]) by kodakr.kodak.com with SMTP id AA07619 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:09:40 -0400 Message-Id: <31F410F7.1F1C@envirolink.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:38:32 -0400 From: Sean Owens Reply-To: player@envirolink.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with thinkpad 750c boot floppy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.org