From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 26 15:34:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEAD37B43D; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8QMY0Z21672; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:34:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200109262234.f8QMY0Z21672@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Richard Johnson , Jason Andresen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? References: <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> <15280.12140.840758.895895@rast.cisco.com> <200109251547.f8PFl5761215@harmony.village.org> <200109260721.f8Q7Lt765347@harmony.village.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:21:55 MDT." <200109260721.f8Q7Lt765347@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:34:00 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 :-( :-( :-( >:-< I had an older system which had these same symptoms, and managed to "fix" it by building DOS partitions which started on a cylinder boundary. This wastes some space before the first DOS partition, but, well, it started working then. I don't know if this is the same as the problem in question, but in desperation of things to try, there's another one. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message