Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:45:22 +0100 From: Robert Blacquiere <current@guldan.demon.nl> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anyone tried this trick? Message-ID: <20031209214522.GB66019@bombur.guldan.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031209150801.H94358-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> References: <bqt8av$jkd$1@sea.gmane.org> <20031209150801.H94358-100000@m-net.arbornet.org>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:46:10PM -0500, Lei Z wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > I bought an Armada m300 (it came with no floppy or CD-ROM drive) from ebay > a few days ago. Try pxebooting of the laptop, i've got the same notebook and the intel pxe boot works. There is a document on the web about jumpstarting FreeBSD that's a usefull guide to do the install. >I tried various possibilities to get this to work. When > the laptop hard disk was in the desktop, it worked flawlessly just like a > regular desktop hard disk with every OS I tested with including DOS, win > 98, win2k (no chance to try FreeBSD yet). But after I put it back to the > laptop with installed OS, the partition was recognized and bootable only > when DOS was installed. When the primary partion was installed with win98, > or win2k, the disk is simply not bootable. Also, DOS extended partition is > not recognized in the laptop either. I created the primary partition under > DOS, during Windows 2000 installation, or under desktop's Windows XP > (laptop disk mounted as slave), but the results were mostly the same. Net boot seems to be a good alternative. > > Is this a BIOS incompatibility, or something else? Has anybody got > successful experience with this trick? A quick search showed that Armada > m300 doesn't seem to have a special reserved partition like some other > laptops. Thanks for any hints, suggestions to get this work. > > Leo > > Robert -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? OpenBSD: Hey guys you left some holes out there!
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