Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40
Dan Pelleg <[email protected]>
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Khairil Yusof <[email protected]> writes: > 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. > No need for a USB floppy. Once you have the floppy image in a file boot.img, place it in a new directory, cd to that directory, and then: mkisofs -r -b boot.img -c boot.catalog -o ../bootcd.iso . You can now burn bootcd.iso to a CD-R, and boot from it on your USB CD-ROM. -- Dan Pelleg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"