From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 13 17:15:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B791150E1 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02069; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908140010.RAA02069@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "David E. Cross" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yet more TP 600E fun... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:43:07 EDT." <199908130543.BAA80699@cs.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:10:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message