Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:11:27 +0900 (JST) From: sanpei@sanpei.org (MIHIRA Yoshiro) To: denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook Message-ID: <199906100211.LAA17169@lavender.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:50:22 JST". <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906051618540.4861-100000@acacia.cts.ucla.edu>
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denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Annelise Anderson wrote: >> >> > I'm talking about the C1 in comparison to the 505. The screen >> > is fine with me. I just can't figure out how to install >> > FreeBSD on it, since I can't boot floppies (usb floppy is >> > not yet supported). A parallel port usb is supported and I >> > could connect to another machine that way, but I still can't >> > boot install floppies. >> >> Why don't you browse the Laptop Compatibility pages for FreeBSD at >> >> >> http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html >> >> for further info. >> >> I am sure that you can boot from the USB floppy since it is the C1X BIOS >> that is handling the floppy during the reboot process. Tatsumi Hosokowa in >> Japan (http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/) has done most if not all of the >> work for the FreeBSD Mobile Support Package, and his PA0 release 2.2.8 >> boot floppy should allow you to do a full install of FreeBSD 2.2.8 on the >> C1X -- and come up with a system fully enabled for pcmcia support. >> >> With FreeBSD 3.x, the single boot floppy has become now two floppies. And >> the question and problem with the C1X USB floppy drive is whether one can >> handle the 2 floppy sequence -- one boots with the kern floppy and when >> that is done it requests that you insert the 2nd mfsroot floppy and hit >> enter. For laptops, Linux install has a two floppy sequence also (the 2nd >> floppy being the pcmcia support) but it fails as the floppy change is not >> detected successfully on the USB-based floppy... so the question is >> whether the FreeBSD 3.x install fail similarly or actually successfully >> detects the floppy change and is able to proceed. I asked this question in BSD-nomads mailing list, Ryoji KATO <ryoji.kato@nrj.ericsson.se> reported: o Vaio PCG-C1 which has USB-based floppy can boot FreeBSD-3.x install floppy(but early BIOS has problem, it need ten miniuts to read floppy. Please update your BIOS) FreeBSD-3.x and Linux are use 2 floppies for install. But there are different way to read 2nd floppy. I think current FreeBSD boot floppy use BTX boot code. o 2nd mfsroot.flp is also read by BTX. o BTX use BIOS call to read floppy. o If BIOS recognize USB-based FDD as A: drive, BTX can read 2nd flp via USB-based FDD. (Yes, We can install FreeBSD to Vaio C1 easily !!, Also Toshiba Libretto which is PCMCIA-FDD) But Linux (RedHat?) installer read 2nd floppy by kernel side Floppy driver, I think. If kernel does not support USB FDD driver, it can't read 2nd floppy :-<. Have a nice FreeBSD life. MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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