From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 14:31:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA09426 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:31:49 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA09415 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:31:45 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA27602; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:31:42 -0800 Message-Id: <199503192231.OAA27602@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eh? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:28:18 PST." <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:31:41 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >>I've just tried to boot a ThinkPad 700C with a kcopy ah bootdisk.. it'll >>'boot' til it tries to mount the root filesystem on fd0c >>"changing root device to fd0c" .. it just rattles on the disk forever. > >The ThinkPad uses some memory in the upper part first megabyte that >'normal' PC BIOSes do not. > >Try gopher://ftp.netbsd.org to get to the NetBSD mail archive for more >details as to how it was fixed under NetBSD. The 700 and 720 are MCA machines. Are we ever going to bring in the MCA stuff that a few folks have done? -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================