From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 23:38:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20E016A4DE for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0571C43D46 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:38:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7LNbg7R019534; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:37:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060821183608.025870f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:37:34 -0500 To: Jerry McAllister , questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <200608212220.k7LMKVGp001418@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200608212220.k7LMKVGp001418@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Installing on IBM Z61t X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:38:14 -0000 I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD. -Derek At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: >Hi All, > >I am trying to set up a notebook computer for someone (I only have >towers and rackmount servers running FreeBSD myself). > >The machine is an IBM Z61t Lenova with 2 GHz Intel CPU, 1 GB memory >The BIOS version is 1.06 (7FET46WW) of 2006-04-27 > >I has an: ATAPI CD0:MATSHITADVD-RAM UK-842-(PM) cd/dvd reader/burner. > >I got a USB floppy and put it on too. > >The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk > >I have switched floppy and CD a couple of times and removed >a number of other thing from the boot order - mostly things >that are not actually on the machine. > >I was able to boot Partition Magic with the USB floppy and fix up >the hard disk to make room. I added a FAT32 (#3) slice and an >undesignated slice (#4). I hoped to add FreeBSD to the undesignated >slice and use the FAT32 for communication between WinXP and FreeBSD >since the XP slice was NTFS. > >But, it will not boot the FreeBSD 6.1 installation CD - it completely >ignores it and boots WinXP, even though it looks like it is enabled >in the BIOS. It doesn't even seem to try booting the CD and fail. >The BIOS doesn't appear to talk to it at all. > >That CD worked fine in another (deskside) machine - a Dell, by >the way. I had no trouble doing an install with it on that machine. > >So, I made a set of 6.1 install floppies. >Although the Partition Magic (several years old copy) floppies booted >just fine, when I started to boot from the boot.flp floppy it read it >and then started repeatedly dumping some message on the screen. It >just kept scrolling up too fast to read. It looked like it might >be 5 or 6 lines long. > >Just in case it was telling me to put in the kern1.flp, I did that >and hit enter, but it did not stop scrolling what appeared to be >the same message, nor did it appear to read that floppy at all. > >I have rummaged through the BIOS setup and not found anything that >jumps out at me that I should turn on or off. I did not find >anything that looked like 'plug n play'. > >So, my obvious question is: (questions are:) >Is there any hope of installing FreeBSD on this notebook computer? >Is there something I can turn on or off to make it work? >Why will the old Partition Magic floppy work, but the new FreeBSD 6.1 not? >Why doesn't the BIOS even attempt to check the CD for a boot sector, >but just ignore it completely and boot the HD? > >Thanks for any clues or solid informatino, > >////jerry > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. 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