From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 19:59:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE8037B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571C743E6A for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:59:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id E55B04FC9C; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FDD4A0D; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:57:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Chip Norkus Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM 600E installation with FreeBSD 3.5 In-Reply-To: <20021005235120.GW9799@arpa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Chip Norkus wrote: > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:51:20 -0500 > From: Chip Norkus > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: IBM 600E installation with FreeBSD 3.5 > > On Sat Oct 05, 2002; 12:39PM -0400 ram.gopal@nokia.com propagated the following: > > Greetings, > > > > I tried to install FreeBSD 3.5 on IBM 600E Laptop , the following error message pops up but 4.4 is working properly on the same type of machine. > > Hi. I've got a 600E. Make sure you've got the absolute latest BIOS > updates from IBM. Also, you probably won't have any luck getting the sound > working. :/ Good luck! > That does sound like an aged BIOS. How old is the 600e? Also, I was able to get sound working only with the onboard modem disabled (ps2.exe or win32 thinkpad utility). > > =================================================== > > /boot.config: -P > > Keyboard: yes > > - > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX versionis 1.01 > > Console: internal video/keyboard > > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > > > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 638/65535kB > > (jkh@monster.osd.bsdi.com, Thu Jul 20 01:51:51 GMT 2000) > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > ===================================================== > > The BIOS on my 600e didnt assign drive letters like this. Why is it reading a:? Possibly you need to re-write your MBR? Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message