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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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