Re: installing on an IBM 770x

> From: Vince Hoffman <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:58:18 -0000
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> Sorry if this is the wrong place for this and feel free to redirect 
> me if it is.
> I've been attempting to install 5.0-RELEASE on an IBM 770x laptop and
> not having much luck. Using the kernel and mfsroot floppys my xircom 
> card (Realport card and modem (rem56G-100)) is not detected, and trying
> to boot from the mini ISO hangs, my final try was to copy the mini ISO 
> to a fat16 partion as per the FAQ, but sysinstall from the floppys says 
> it cant find anything useful there. I'm pretty sure its not hardware as
> I have a slackware linux partion which boots and runs fine. 
> any hints or suggestions gratefully recieved. 

If you are not doing so, enable APM and turn off ACPI when booting.  I
have not seen a ThinkPad that does not cause significant ACPI problems,
although some recent BIOS updates are much better.

Hit a space during the boot count-down and enter "unset acpi_load".
(Don't worry about APM for the install.) This should result in the
Xircom being seen.

> ps. i'm going to try 4.7-RELEASE tonight. wish me luck

Try 4.8-RC (RELENG_4). It should handle the 770X pretty well. More
stable that any 4.7 release in my experience. Should be 4.8-RELEASE next
week.

BTW--I have only a 600E and not a 770X running CURRENT and an RE-100
Ethernet card (no modem), so my experience may not entirely match yours.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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