From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 1 5:58:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.cix.co.uk (mail-relay.cix.co.uk [194.153.0.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCE314FF9 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 05:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robh@imdb.com) Received: from uk2.imdb.com (uk2.imdb.com [195.224.85.202]) by mail-relay.cix.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA14554; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:58:47 GMT X-Envelope-From: robh@imdb.com Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:58:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Rob Hartill To: Steve Gailey Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 600 In-Reply-To: <199911010942.JAA09689@pow.srv.uk.deuba.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Steve Gailey wrote: > Has anyone had any success installing FreeBSD 3.X on one of > these beasts? > > The machine just hangs and needs a physical reset during the > probes, just after finding the CD. I have tried disabling not required > for the install, but without any success. > > I am booting FreeBSD 3.3, from floppy (CD didn't work as it got > confused about the disks). It does find the Hdd and CD-ROM ok, > but hangs after that. > > Thanks for any help. I have a Thinkpad 770 that showed similar hanging problems. The cause is the Thinkpad's use of about 0.5mb of its memory for itself. You need to boot with a kernel that doesn't try to use memory that's reserved for the hardware. When the Thinkpad boots, look to see how much memory is available. If you can, create a boot disk with a kernel that has MAXMEM set to this number then you should be ok. I have 128mb (MAXMEM=131072) in my thinkpad but the kernel is configured with MAXMEM=130496 (=127.4mb). Maybe there's a boot option that'll let you set this so that you can use an existing boot disk. -- Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (www.moviedatabase.com). An Amazon.com company. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message