From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 13 21:26:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAE614E52 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from eccles.salk.edu (eccles [198.202.70.120]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10524; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:25:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: Mike Smith Cc: "David E. Cross" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yet more TP 600E fun... In-Reply-To: <199908140010.RAA02069@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd be more than happy to do the pestering if some one could write down a detailed description of exactly how the TP's BIOS is non-compliant. I don't know enough about the boot process and BIOS to write such a description. Tom On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message