From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 16:52:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F12C37B505; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79D4132E7; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02112; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002170104.RAA02112@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Baldwin Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Abshez , "David E. Cross" Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:46:11 EST." <200002162346.SAA22380@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:04:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: > >> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be > >> able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do > >> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that > >> for loading the kernel and drivers. > > > > The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy > > image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly > > know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad > > or look at this it would be easy to fix. > > Err, which place? The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the > first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy. It's not, which is the "Thinkpad CDROM boot problem". The one report I recall put it on 0x87, but I don't have any concrete evidence to suggest that it's always there either. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message