sweetnsourbkr wrote: > I'm trying into install OpenBSD 4.0 onto my laptop. It's a Pentium 3 1.13 > MHz with 768MB RAM. > > I burned an install CD following the installation instructions. I buned the > cd40.iso first, started a multisession CD. Then afterwards, burned the rest > of the packages and finished the multisession CD. This setup boots fine on > my desktop system.
Try doing it right: Burn cd40.iso, boot from that. Multi-session adds unneeded complication. If that doesn't work, you probably have an issue between the media and the drive you have, assuming it actually tried to look at the CD. Yes, that happens. I've got an old iMac that would boot from the pressed CDs, but only one brand of blanks. Now, it doesn't boot from any blanks. Dead drive. > On my laptop, however, it reads the CD, but it does not boot, and goes > straight into the hard disk boot (Lilo in my case). which means, very clearly, either the system didn't try the CDROM or couldn't read it at all. > I've tried disabling hard drive boot, enabling the floppy disk, enabling > superdisk boot, updated the BIOS to the latest release, all to no avail. > > Does anyone know how I can boot onto my Thinkpad? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. :) Don't think I've used a T23, but I've booted and installed OpenBSD on many older and newer Thinkpads, and it just works. You aren't describing a boot problem, you are describing a "my laptop isn't trying to boot this CD" problem. If it was going as far as to be an OpenBSD problem, you would be hanging during boot, not moving on and booting from the HD. So, yes, I'm guessing either your boot ROM isn't recognizing your multi-session CD properly, it isn't seeing the CD at all, or you aren't inspiring it to boot from the CD at all. The fact that you can boot your FrankenCD from a desktop doesn't negate any of those possibilities. Nick.
