Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:21:55 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? Message-ID: <200109260721.f8Q7Lt765347@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:40:41 PDT." <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> References: <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> <15280.12140.840758.895895@rast.cisco.com> <200109251547.f8PFl5761215@harmony.village.org>
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In message <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> Richard Johnson writes: : Thanks for the responses! : : Warner Losh writes: : > Actaully, all 2.5" IDE disks *DO* have the same pinout. At least all : > the ones that have passed through my hot little hands (to be fair, : > that's only about 40 total with 15 different models). I've seen the : > biggest problem between laptops is the suspend to disk partition. : > Some BIOSes get grumpy when it isn't there, or has garbage in it. : : In this case, the system recognizes the drive and I can even install : FreeBSD on it with no problems, however when I try to boot from it I : see: : F1 DOS : F2 FreeBSD : and whichever one you select it simply beeps and does nothing. The it is a BIOS geometry issue. :-( Those range from easy to impossible to fix :-( :-( :-( >:-< Wanrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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