Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:12:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Morten Seeberg" <ml@seeberg.dk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 4.1 ISO on Thinkpads never work for me??? Message-ID: <200008210112.SAA02213@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:47:36 BST." <005b01c00b11$c8cbc180$deff58c1@sos>
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> I had a similar problem with the 4.0 image, and asked about it here, without > any answers, now that I have the same problem with 4.1 on my new thinkpad > 600x (had a 600e before), I thought someone should think about this. > > I burned the ISO from cdrom.com with cdrecord, and the laptop does boot the > CD, but stops at the bootloader, and after a approx. 20-30 second timeout > says that Itīs confused and doesnīt know which drive to boot from (theres > Drive 0 = Floppy but taken over by CD (as far as I see it) and Drive 1 (my > harddisk). > > I cannot boot from any of them, any suggestions? Thinkpads are troublesome when it comes to CDROMs. Until someone with one either a) lends us one, or b) works it out for themselves, I'm not sure we can do anything about this. The problem is fairly straightforward, and I've explained it to several people (none of whom have ever gotten back to me). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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