From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 02:09:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9011A16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA6743D41 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7F35A53; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:09:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id 80ACF446D; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:09:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Dru References: <74d483d50410031757538666e8@mail.gmail.com> <20041003213810.F584@dru.domain.org> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:09:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20041003213810.F584@dru.domain.org> (Dru's message of "Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:50:08 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install hangs on IBM Thinkpad X23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 02:09:55 -0000 Dru writes: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 ignavusincognitus@gmail.com wrote: > >> http://s89813419.onlinehome.us/thinkpad-floppy.iso >> >> It's not bootable - I don't think that can be done in 1.44MB. You >> will need a separate bootable DOS disk. I used MS-DOS 6.22. Maybe FreeDOS >> will work. >> >> There is also an .img version should you need a floppy image. >> >> PS2.EXE is very slow to run. But it does seem to do the job. Extract PS2.MSG >> and view it on another machine to speed things up. > > > Update: installed Firefox on the 2000 system and got the download > immediately. Extracted the utility directory to a floppy. Found an old DOS > boot disk to boot the Thinkpad into DOS. Ran the uinstall utility as > mentioned in the txt and rec'd an error saying if the error repeats to > contact IBM. The error repeated. Ran the PS2 utility which took forever, > then told me to run "ps2 ?" which took forever and did nothing. Nothing has > been added to my BIOS, but at least the utility didn't nuke it. > PS2 changes the bios options by itself. So you need to type "ps2 touchpad disable" (note: made-up example) if you want the touchpad disabled. Then you type "ps2 speedstep off" for another change, etc. "ps2 ?" should list all the options available for your hardware, and "ps2 ? speedstep" will explain about the speedstep options. "ps2 ?" not outputting anything I've never seen. > If I have time tomorrow after work I'll try making a PXE server and see if I > have any better luck with that. If I don't, I'm going shopping for a CDROM > cable. Hopefully I won't still be stuck with a BIOS issue... > > Out of curiosity, Dan, can you send me your BIOS revision from a working > laptop? I'm pretty sure I have the original one--it's dated from 2002. > Will do, as soon as I can conveniently reboot and check. -- Dan Pelleg