From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 9:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xfw.transarc.ibm.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B058037B409 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@transarc.ibm.com) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by xfw.transarc.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id MAA46498 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:24:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id MAA22829 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:31:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.2 on Thinkpad 380XD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I saw a similar question asked in April with regard to the Thinkpad 600X, but never saw a solution posted. And now, I am having the same problem... I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 from CD-ROM (CD made from the iso image on ftp.freebsd.org), on an IBM Thinkpad 380XD. When I boot from the CD, I get an error that looks something like (this is from memory and from the previous report in the mailing list archives, so it might be slightly off....): Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0 Booting [kernel] can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands.... ok Installing FreeBSD 4.0 worked just fine on this machine in the past, and in fact it is still installed. So, I tried to boot the CD using the 4.0 loader (the one that's currently installed on the hard disk) and install. Booting actually worked, and it appeared that the CD-ROM probed successfully. But, once I got to the stage where it was asking me to set the installation media option, sysinstall told me that it could not find any CD-ROM devices. So apparently, something happened between 4.0 and 4.2 that makes FreeBSD unable to use the CD-ROM drive on the Thinkpad. Anyone know if this works in 4.3? I've tried looking through CVSWEB for a log entry like "Fixed problem that broke CD-ROM on Thinkpad", but found nothing that seemed likely.... :-) Thanks, --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message