From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 14 17:13:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tamserver.jfk1.gctr.net (tamserver.jfk1.gctr.net [206.41.7.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA4614C99 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sec@finary.com) Received: from localhost (sec@localhost) by tamserver.jfk1.gctr.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA25683; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:23:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sec@finary.com) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:23:11 -0500 (EST) From: sec X-Sender: sec@tamserver.jfk1.gctr.net To: Jonathan Towne Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad 750 In-Reply-To: <19991113210357.A20018@massve.geek.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yep i have an 600E 350Mhz, 128m or RAM. The same thing happens as it hits 'Probing devices' The machine just hangs and becomes totally un-responsive. Heck can't even turn the machine off by hitting the power off button, have to take out the Battery, have tried this with 2.2.8-REL, 3.1-REL et cetera. On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jonathan Towne wrote: > I've got a Thinkpad 750, 2 pc card slots, no cdrom, only a mere > 486SL/33 CPU, and 8meg of RAM, and i'm trying to install a copy > of 3.3-RELEASE on it to replace win3.11. Since the thinkpad > uses an odd keyboard of some sort, i give syscons the 0x2 flag, > which fixed the keyboard one time (the only time i got it to > boot correctly). Anyways, i've tried the standard installation > floppies, and the pccard floppies, neither would get past the > "Probing devices, please wait (...)" dialog, it just hangs there, > and will not accept any keyboard commands or anything like that. > This problem previously happened to me on a set of installation > floppies that didn't have FPU emulation in the kernel on my > 486sx/25, but, 3.3-RELEASE is supposed to have it, so, I'm sure > that can't be the problem, any answers would be greatly > appreciated.. :) > > -- > Jonathan Towne jontow@massive.geek.edu/wrongway@slic.com > Systems Administrator http://massive.geek.edu/ > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GU d- s: a--- C+++ UB++++ P L- E--- W--- N++ o K w--- > O-- M V- PS PE Y-- PGP- t+ 5 X+ R+ tv- b+ DI+ D++ > G e- h-- r-- y > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message