From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 02:33:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 8A8D816A5C2 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralphellis1@netscape.ca) Received: from smtp-1.vancouver.ipapp.com (smtp-1.vancouver.ipapp.com [216.152.192.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C6E43D45 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:33:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ralphellis1@netscape.ca) Received: from [192.168.123.101] ([172.128.253.61]) by smtp-1.vancouver.ipapp.com ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:32:59 -0700 From: Ralph Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:32:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608220116.k7M1Gn9q002035@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200608220116.k7M1Gn9q002035@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608212232.39928.ralphellis1@netscape.ca> X-Rcpt-To: X-Country: US 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: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:33:00 -0000 On Monday 21 August 2006 9:16 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk > > > > Most of the IBM laptops have some key that you can hit to get to a > > BIOS boot menu to select your boot device. Maybe it will boot the CD- > > ROM if you select it from there > > Yes. I got in to that OK and checked out the BIOS setup and > actually played with the boot order some - but it didn't seem > to make any difference. It never seems to talk with the CD > during the boot, even with the CD drive first in boot order. > > ////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" Possible options Check the online manual with IBM to see if you need to hit any special keys to drop into a boot selection menu. Some IBM laptops had a CD firmware upgrade and a bios upgrade to deal with problems like this. Check out their support website with Levono and see if any of these upgrades apply to this machine. Ralph Ellis