>
> On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
> >> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be
> >> able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do
> >> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that
> >> for loading the kernel and drivers.
> >
> > The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy
> > image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly
> > know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad
> > or look at this it would be easy to fix.
>
> Err, which place? The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the
> first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy.
It's not, which is the "Thinkpad CDROM boot problem". The one report I
recall put it on 0x87, but I don't have any concrete evidence to suggest
that it's always there either.
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