From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 13:28:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA28867 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:28:27 -0800 Received: from violet.berkeley.edu (violet.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.155.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28844 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:28:23 -0800 Received: by violet.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.33r) id NAA23519; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:28:18 -0800 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:28:18 -0800 From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Message-Id: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: eh? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Path: agate!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ThinkPad's & FreeBSD Date: 18 Mar 1995 21:55:43 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <1995Mar17.093120.40317@cobra.uni.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: kuhtzc0580@cobra.uni.edu's message of 17 Mar 95 09:31:20 -0600 >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.