Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:13:50 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750 Message-ID: <199503160713.RAA19829@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I'm trying to get FreeBSD-2.0 (or SNAP) to install on a Thinkpad 750 (I >need to get FreeBSD or NetBSD on here before friday). I can get it to >boot using some modified NetBSD boot blocks that know how to deal with >36 sector floppies, but one it comes up the keyboard doesn't work. >Under NetBSD I had to remove the keyboard initialization code in >pccons to get the keyboard to work at all, and I couldn't get it working >with pcvt (I'm hung with NetBSD at another point now). Has anyone done >this before? Willing to help me out? The problem may be that the APM BIOS uses memory that it has reserved below 640K. FreeBSD doesn't honor BIOS reserved memory. Bruce
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