Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:44:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: eh? Message-ID: <kjPCkW_00iVC04fmAm@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> References: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu>
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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 19-Mar-95 eh? by Jordan K. Hubbard@violet > >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. I'm tying on a 750 as we speak. don't know how close it is to the 700 though. in netbsd you have to use 4k less memory then the probed amound (ie, biosbasemem -= 4 in arch/i386/i386/machdep.c). now to get the pcmcia slots working :) alex
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