Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:05:20 -0400 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel@pelleg.org> To: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install hangs on IBM Thinkpad X23 Message-ID: <u2swty7mgxb.fsf@lank.wburn> In-Reply-To: <20041003203032.R584@dru.domain.org> (Dru's message of "Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:45:32 -0400 (EDT)") References: <20041003120806.M584@dru.domain.org> <u2s4qlbo5y7.fsf@lank.wburn> <20041003203032.R584@dru.domain.org>
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Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> writes: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Dan Pelleg wrote: > <snip> >> I'm about to update that page for -5.X. On my 2662-E5U I successfully >> installed 4.5, some early 5 release (either 5.1 or 5.2.1), and >> 5.3-beta3. All of them from a USB cd-rom, none of them while docked. I >> don't recall ever seeing that error. So at this point I tend to think it's >> something that can be fixed by changing some BIOS option. Possibly along >> the lines of: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019435.html > > > Yes, I suspect it is a BIOS option. Unfortunately, my current BIOS doesn't > have the particular option listed in the above URL. > > That was meant just as an example. That particular thread is about the X31. [Incidentally, I can confirm it does solve a problem on the X31. But I never had this problem on the X23.] [...] > Not having too much joy at that site. The only MS machine I have access to > at the moment is 2000. Internet Explorer was hanging on the "I agree" popup > box; now I can't even get it to give me the popup box. Grrr. I downloaded > the file no prob in BSD and sneaker-netted it over to 2000 but I get a > 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem illegal instruction message whenever I try to run > it. Zippo extraction. > As of last week, on Win2K it Worked For Me (TM). All I can suggest is: complain to IBM. -- Dan Pelleg
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