Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40
Khairil Yusof <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"