Installing on IBM Z61t
Derek Ragona
derek at computinginnovations.com
Tue Aug 22 13:17:04 UTC 2006
You can go to bootdisk.org or freedos.org and download an iso image to make
a bootable CD. I think you need to first get your system actually booting
a CD of any OS, then move on to installing FreeBSD.
It may be your BIOS isn't booting the CD or you simply have a CD with a bad
boot image. So getting a CD that does indeed boot is the first step.
Being able to read a CD is not sufficient. Bootable CD's have a strict
format that must be in place or the boot fails.
-Derek
At 08:14 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> > 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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