From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 21 18: 3:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.whitebarn.com (Spin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBDF37B405 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bob@Talarian.Com) Received: from Talarian.Com (NewStorm.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.77]) by smtp.whitebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA39617; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:03:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Bob@Talarian.Com) Message-ID: <3B5A256E.2070500@Talarian.Com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:59:26 -0500 From: Bob Van Valzah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Dieringer Cc: FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: ThinkPad 600X: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050706070807040502000406" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------050706070807040502000406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the tip, but I can't try that since I don't have a working Windows partition :-( But it looks like maybe it's already configured that way: $ dmesg | grep ata1 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using PIO4 In the mean time, I've cooked up a scheme with ideas from Greg Smith that'll probably work. I extracted the 4.3 version of /stand/sysinstall from the mfsroot floppy (using another machine's floppy drive: mount, cp, unzip, vnconfig, mount). I've pulled that over the the ThinkPad via FTP and plan to just run it in single-user mode with all filesystems mounted and all fingers crossed for good luck. Bob Martin Dieringer wrote: >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 > --------------050706070807040502000406 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the tip, but I can't try that since I don't have a working Windows partition :-( But it looks like maybe it's already configured that way:

$ dmesg | grep ata1
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B> at ata1-master using PIO4

In the mean time, I've cooked up a scheme with ideas from Greg Smith that'll probably work. I extracted the 4.3 version of /stand/sysinstall from the mfsroot floppy (using another machine's floppy drive: mount, cp, unzip, vnconfig, mount). I've pulled that over the the ThinkPad via FTP and plan to just run it in single-user mode with all filesystems mounted and all fingers crossed for good luck.

    Bob

Martin Dieringer wrote:
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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