Installing on IBM Z61t
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue Aug 22 01:14:38 UTC 2006
>
> I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs
> into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to
> see if you get it to boot from CD.
I don't happen to have any other bootable CDs handy.
But, I was able to read CDs on that drive in XP.
They were just videos, etc.
They were not bootable, though, so I didn't attempt to boot with them.
////jerry
>
> -Derek
>
>
> At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I am trying to set up a notebook computer for someone (I only have
> >towers and rackmount servers running FreeBSD myself).
> >
> >The machine is an IBM Z61t Lenova with 2 GHz Intel CPU, 1 GB memory
> >The BIOS version is 1.06 (7FET46WW) of 2006-04-27
> >
> >I has an: ATAPI CD0:MATSHITADVD-RAM UK-842-(PM) cd/dvd reader/burner.
> >
> >I got a USB floppy and put it on too.
> >
> >The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk
> >
> >I have switched floppy and CD a couple of times and removed
> >a number of other thing from the boot order - mostly things
> >that are not actually on the machine.
> >
> >I was able to boot Partition Magic with the USB floppy and fix up
> >the hard disk to make room. I added a FAT32 (#3) slice and an
> >undesignated slice (#4). I hoped to add FreeBSD to the undesignated
> >slice and use the FAT32 for communication between WinXP and FreeBSD
> >since the XP slice was NTFS.
> >
> >But, it will not boot the FreeBSD 6.1 installation CD - it completely
> >ignores it and boots WinXP, even though it looks like it is enabled
> >in the BIOS. It doesn't even seem to try booting the CD and fail.
> >The BIOS doesn't appear to talk to it at all.
> >
> >That CD worked fine in another (deskside) machine - a Dell, by
> >the way. I had no trouble doing an install with it on that machine.
> >
> >So, I made a set of 6.1 install floppies.
> >Although the Partition Magic (several years old copy) floppies booted
> >just fine, when I started to boot from the boot.flp floppy it read it
> >and then started repeatedly dumping some message on the screen. It
> >just kept scrolling up too fast to read. It looked like it might
> >be 5 or 6 lines long.
> >
> >Just in case it was telling me to put in the kern1.flp, I did that
> >and hit enter, but it did not stop scrolling what appeared to be
> >the same message, nor did it appear to read that floppy at all.
> >
> >I have rummaged through the BIOS setup and not found anything that
> >jumps out at me that I should turn on or off. I did not find
> >anything that looked like 'plug n play'.
> >
> >So, my obvious question is: (questions are:)
> >Is there any hope of installing FreeBSD on this notebook computer?
> >Is there something I can turn on or off to make it work?
> >Why will the old Partition Magic floppy work, but the new FreeBSD 6.1 not?
> >Why doesn't the BIOS even attempt to check the CD for a boot sector,
> >but just ignore it completely and boot the HD?
> >
> >Thanks for any clues or solid informatino,
> >
> >////jerry
> >
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> <font size=3>I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that
> the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like
> a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD.<br><br>
> <x-tab> </x-tab>-Derek<br><br>
> <br>
> At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:<br>
> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi All, <br><br>
> I am trying to set up a notebook computer for someone (I only have<br>
> towers and rackmount servers running FreeBSD myself).<br><br>
> The machine is an IBM Z61t Lenova with 2 GHz Intel CPU, 1 GB memory<br>
> The BIOS version is 1.06 (7FET46WW) of 2006-04-27<br><br>
> I has an: ATAPI CD0:MATSHITADVD-RAM UK-842-(PM) cd/dvd
> reader/burner.<br><br>
> I got a USB floppy and put it on too.<br><br>
> The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk<br><br>
> I have switched floppy and CD a couple of times and removed<br>
> a number of other thing from the boot order - mostly things<br>
> that are not actually on the machine.<br><br>
> I was able to boot Partition Magic with the USB floppy and fix up <br>
> the hard disk to make room. I added a FAT32 (#3) slice and an
> <br>
> undesignated slice (#4). I hoped to add FreeBSD to the
> undesignated<br>
> slice and use the FAT32 for communication between WinXP and FreeBSD<br>
> since the XP slice was NTFS.<br><br>
> But, it will not boot the FreeBSD 6.1 installation CD - it
> completely<br>
> ignores it and boots WinXP, even though it looks like it is enabled<br>
> in the BIOS. It doesn't even seem to try booting the CD and
> fail.<br>
> The BIOS doesn't appear to talk to it at all.<br><br>
> That CD worked fine in another (deskside) machine - a Dell, by<br>
> the way. I had no trouble doing an install with it on that
> machine.<br><br>
> So, I made a set of 6.1 install floppies.<br>
> Although the Partition Magic (several years old copy) floppies
> booted<br>
> just fine, when I started to boot from the boot.flp floppy it read
> it<br>
> and then started repeatedly dumping some message on the screen.
> It<br>
> just kept scrolling up too fast to read. It looked like it
> might<br>
> be 5 or 6 lines long. <br><br>
> Just in case it was telling me to put in the kern1.flp, I did that<br>
> and hit enter, but it did not stop scrolling what appeared to be<br>
> the same message, nor did it appear to read that floppy at all.<br><br>
> I have rummaged through the BIOS setup and not found anything that<br>
> jumps out at me that I should turn on or off. I did not
> find<br>
> anything that looked like 'plug n play'.<br><br>
> So, my obvious question is: (questions are:) <br>
> Is there any hope of installing FreeBSD on this notebook computer?<br>
> Is there something I can turn on or off to make it work?<br>
> Why will the old Partition Magic floppy work, but the new FreeBSD 6.1
> not?<br>
> Why doesn't the BIOS even attempt to check the CD for a boot
> sector,<br>
> but just ignore it completely and boot the HD?<br><br>
> Thanks for any clues or solid informatino,<br><br>
> ////jerry<br><br>
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