From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 13:56:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA06262 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:56:38 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06242 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:56:32 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA03660; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:00:28 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:00:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199503192200.PAA03660@trout.sri.MT.net> To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eh? In-Reply-To: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> References: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) 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. I have a ThinkPad 750C sitting about 2 feet next to me that I can test bootdisks on, though it's not going to be running FreeBSD for a while since I need it for work. If anyone wants to make the changes necessary I'd be willing to test them out. Nate