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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:59:26 -0500
From:      Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com>
To:        Martin Dieringer <dieringe@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.Org
Subject:   Re: ThinkPad 600X: Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Message-ID:  <3B5A256E.2070500@Talarian.Com>
References:  <Pine.SGI.4.21.0107220240140.14247-100000@Komma.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE>

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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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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:<br>
<br>
$ dmesg | grep ata1<br>
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0<br>
acd0: CDROM &lt;TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B&gt; at ata1-master using PIO4<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bob<br>
<br>
Martin Dieringer wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:Pine.SGI.4.21.0107220240140.14247-100000@Komma.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE">
  <pre wrap="">On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bob Van Valzah wrote:<br><br></pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">I'm running 4.2-RELEASE on a ThinkPad 600X and I'd like to upgrade to <br>4.3-RELEASE. I have no floppy drive so I'm thinking I have to boot from <br>the CD-ROM to do the upgrade. The ThinkPad's BIOS does attempt to boot <br>from the 4.3 CD-ROM but can't find the kernel:<br>...<br><br>It appears to me that the ThinkPad's CD-ROM drive doesn't show up as <br>BIOS device. The loader's "lsdev" command confirms this:<br>...<br></pre>
    </blockquote>
    <pre wrap=""><!----><br><br>you could try to enable irq 15 for the ultrabay via the thinkpad config in<br>windows ("hot-swapping" for cdrom/floppy).  I think that makes the cdrom<br>the master device on 2nd controller - not shure if that helps.<br><br>...otherwise you could also just compile the sources.<br><br>martin<br></pre>
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