From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 14 12:48:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15164 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thyme.cisco.com (thyme.cisco.com [171.69.43.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15150 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shibumi@cisco.com) Received: from cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thyme.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA11114; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810141947.MAA11114@thyme.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Mike Smith cc: Charles Quarri , Jonathan Kaplan , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 09:46:51 PDT." <199810021646.JAA00353@dingo.cdrom.com> Reply-to: shibumi@cisco.com X-Disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted below, this is not a policy statement Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:47:14 -0700 From: "Kenton A. Hoover" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tried it -- won't boot off the install disk. Acts the same as it did when it crashed on booting a kernel that didn't deal with memory correctly. I'd build a special for it, but I'm not in the mood to pay for a special system to baby-sit my laptop. > > Quoting Jonathan Kaplan (kaplan@ricochet.net): > > > Randy, > > > > > > I'm unable to get FreeBSD 2.2.7 booted/installed onto my Thinkpad 600. I > > > can sucessfully boot off the CD, but the system hangs shortly after I get > > > through the configuration/conflict menu -- it burps out a short, rapid bu rst > > > of beeps and locks up. Its a plain vanilla system with 96M of memory, an d I > > > have RedHat 5.1 running without any problems. > > > > There is a problem with the way FreeBSD detechs memory on the ThinkPad 600. > > The problem is actually with the way that the TP600 responds to the > memory probe technique that FreeBSD uses, but the results are the same. > > > I was able to get it to work in the following manner: > > > > Install FreeBSD with just the built-in memory (32 Meg). > > > > Rebuild the kernel with OPTION "MAXMEM=xxx" where xxx is > > the amount of memory you will install (use the number that > > show up when the machine is booting with all the memory). > > > > Install the new kernel, shut the box down, install the memory > > and boot. > > I would be very interested to hear from anyone that is running -current > on one of these systems; we have an improved memory-sizing algorithm > available there which it would be desirable to test. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message | Kenton A. Hoover Network Team Manager | shibumi@cisco.com | | Engineering Computer Services | | | Cisco Systems, Inc. | +1.408.526.5249 | |===================== http://www.shockwave.com/~shibumi ====================| | "Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the | | Middle East... | | | | ...and we won't be the second either." | | -- Israeli joke | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message