Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:40:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Morten Seeberg" <ml@seeberg.dk>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting 4.1 ISO on Thinkpads never work for me??? Message-ID: <200008210440.WAA10471@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200008210112.SAA02213@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <005b01c00b11$c8cbc180$deff58c1@sos> <200008210112.SAA02213@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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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). I've offered to let you sit down with my Thinkpad (600e) next time I'm in town. The offer still stands, and I'll be in town next week if you are interested in fixing this some evening. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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