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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750
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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