Re: TP600 (crippled) install question

[Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>]

At 10:54 PM 9/12/03, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

>Dixitur illum fbax@sympatico.ca scribere...
>
> >My ThinkPad 600 is somewhat crippled.  No floppy disk.  Attempt to boot
>
>Oh my. I've done the following today:
>  - make partition of type A5 (FreeBSD) with GNU/Linux
>  - create (Free)BSD disklabel inside that with GNU/Linux fdisk
>  - write /boot sector by sector on some _other_ area of the disc
>  - do the job of "installboot" by hand: write into biosboot where
>    /boot is on the disc
>  - cat biosboot >/dev/hda4 (BSD partition)
>  [ useless stuff snipped - try'n'error ]
>  - dd if=/dev/hda4 of=bs_plus_disklabel count=2
>  - cat cdrom34.fs >/dev/hda4
>  - cat bs_plus_disklabel >/dev/hda4
>  - change type to 0xA6
>  - reboot, install
>
>Well, I did more than that (including Lunix kernel freezes
>when attempting to write data to the mounted FFS filesystem,
>but touching (=creating) files worked... wtf), but that's
>it when you strip it down.
>
>The hard part is getting biosboot right.


I created an OpenBSD partition on the hard disk after booting RH72 on 
TP600, then I moved hard disk to desktop (via adapter) and did OpenBSD 
install from CDROM.  Although RH72 fdisk claimed to allow update of *BSD 
disklabel, it did not *see* the OpenBSD partition on disk.  When I put disk 
back in laptop, it worked fine.

Frank