FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40

[Dan Pelleg]

Khairil Yusof <khairil at apdip.net> 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.

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  Dan Pelleg