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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:10:27 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: yet more TP 600E fun... 
Message-ID:  <199908140010.RAA02069@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:43:07 EDT." <199908130543.BAA80699@cs.rpi.edu> 

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> I attempt to boot a CD off of the TP600E and I get the following errors:
> 
> "Can't work out which disk we are booting from."
> "Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:"
> 
> Then whenever it attmpts to access "disk0:" it goes to the floppy drive.
> 
> Suggestions?

Known weirdness in the TP's BIOS not handled properly by the 
bootloader.  I don't have immediate plans to do anything about this; 
you could try hacking the loader to accept the 0x8b value and see if 
that actually works.  Or you could pester IBM to DTRT.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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