From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 16 09:38:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14295 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:38:36 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14284 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:38:30 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id DAA32571; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:35:54 +1000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:35:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503161735.DAA32571@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750 Cc: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >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 >> ... >> The problem may be that the APM BIOS uses memory that it has reserved >> below 640K. FreeBSD doesn't honor BIOS reserved memory. >This theory doesn't make sense. The problem with it is that the BIOS >is not accessed after BSD boots, and BSD doesn't load into the BIOS >reserved area while the boot blocks are running before that. The APM BIOS is accessed whenever BSD is idle. >Anyway, back to the keyboard. The problem is that by default the >ThinkPad uses PS/2 scan code mode. Doesn't it accept the console driver's setting of the old scan code mode? Bruce