Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:04:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Abshez <gerald@manhattanprojects.com>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image Message-ID: <200002170104.RAA02112@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:46:11 EST." <200002162346.SAA22380@server.baldwin.cx>
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> > On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: > >> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be > >> able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do > >> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that > >> for loading the kernel and drivers. > > > > The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy > > image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly > > know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad > > or look at this it would be easy to fix. > > Err, which place? The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the > first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy. It's not, which is the "Thinkpad CDROM boot problem". The one report I recall put it on 0x87, but I don't have any concrete evidence to suggest that it's always there either. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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