Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:46:49 +0800 From: Khairil Yusof <khairil@apdip.net> To: eol1@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 Message-ID: <1101016009.10377.44.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> In-Reply-To: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:04 -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote: > > >> Has anybody gotten FreeBSD 5.3 to run ok on a Thinkpad X40? > > >> > > On all the recent X series I have owned (pretty much them all), you need to > boot into windows (ugh), run the thinkpad configuration tool, and disable the > secondary ATA controller. As Arne suggested, this has no noticable effect on > anything ... laptop still works fine, base station (w/ CDROM) works just fine, > etc etc. Once this has been accomplished, FreeBSD 5.x installs and runs with > no problems. Been running it every since the X40 came out. > Thank you Arne and Peter for the solution! I wonder why IBM just doesn't include a BIOS option for it :(. Unfortunately for me, I no longer have my Windows partition, so I'll have to create a dos boot floppy disk and run the ps2.exe dos utilities off of it. So I'm off to find a usb floppy drive now. Again thanks, you guys just made my weekend.
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