Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 02:49:12 +0200 From: Martin Dieringer <dieringe@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com> Cc: FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: ThinkPad 600X: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0107220240140.14247-100000@Komma.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <3B59FA94.4070109@Talarian.Com>
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bob Van Valzah wrote:
> I'm running 4.2-RELEASE on a ThinkPad 600X and I'd like to upgrade to
> 4.3-RELEASE. I have no floppy drive so I'm thinking I have to boot from
> the CD-ROM to do the upgrade. The ThinkPad's BIOS does attempt to boot
> from the 4.3 CD-ROM but can't find the kernel:
> ...
>
> It appears to me that the ThinkPad's CD-ROM drive doesn't show up as
> BIOS device. The loader's "lsdev" command confirms this:
> ...
you could try to enable irq 15 for the ultrabay via the thinkpad config in
windows ("hot-swapping" for cdrom/floppy). I think that makes the cdrom
the master device on 2nd controller - not shure if that helps.
...otherwise you could also just compile the sources.
martin
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