Subject: Re: Half-topical: Thinkpad bootable from CD?
To: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <fessel@detemobil.de>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/17/1999 12:04:59
In message <199903171745.SAA02927@nixalsverdrus.msro.detemobil.de>, Jan-Hinrich
Fessel writes:
>The problem is, it detects a wd11 (eleven), and that is the problem, because I
>
>don't think we support wd11 (do we even support wd2 at wdc0?).
>I don't know why the cd pretends to be wd11, that may be because of some
>strange mapping in the bios. I ran into the same problem but did not spend
>much time on investigating given the fact that IBM doesn't freely give out
>BIOS specs for ThinkPads (I just tried to locate docs on the web, din't ask a
>representative).
Weird. I guess I could call 'em and ask for input.
-s