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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 360
Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:03:07 +0200
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Olaf Manczak <olavi@zow.desy.de> wrote:
>When I try to boot IBM Thinkpad 360 from the recent 2.0.5 boot floppy
>I fall into a problem: that (apparently) keyboard scancodes are interpreted in a
>wrong way.

It should work fine with the pcvt console driver in scan code set 2.
The Thinkpad is known to deviate from the standard in not running its
keyboard in scan set 1.

Of course, this doesn't help you very much for your installation...
but sorry, i don't have a good solution at hand.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)