From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 6 11:59:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from good.gulp.org (mail.gulp.org [204.245.54.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE6437B66D for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from scarter@localhost) by good.gulp.org (8.11.0/BlondeBombShell) id e96IxhO11958; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:59:43 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: good.gulp.org: scarter set sender to scarter@gblx.net using -f Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:59:43 -0700 From: Steve Carter To: area-51@canada.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installign FreeBSD 4.1 on Thinkpad 600X Message-ID: <20001006115943.K75986@gblx.net> References: <20001006182028.25597.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001006182028.25597.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net>; from area-51@canada.com on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:20:28AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am pretty sure the memory thing has been fixed ... I have installed on a 600E w/ 128M without problems of the nature you describe. -Steve * area-51@canada.com [001006 11:20]: > Hi all; > > I am trying to install FBSD 4.1 on a Thinkpad 600X > (64Meg(fixed), 12Gig, DVD). > > I get "unable to live if I can't run init" after > putting the MFSROOT disk in. > > I looked at the mail list archives and found several > references to removing memory but, my 64Meg is fixed > and can't be removed. > > 2 solutions come to mind: > > First, get a generic kernel from some kind person and, > Second, set some boot time options.... > > NOTE: I do not have FBSD installed anywhere else to > build a custom kernel. > > > > Can anyone offer some ideas ? > > P.S. I have aleady sent this to the hardware list > and have had no responses yet. > > - > a > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message