Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:00:28 -0700 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eh? Message-ID: <199503192200.PAA03660@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> References: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu>
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> > >I've just tried to boot a ThinkPad 700C with a kcopy ah bootdisk.. it'll > >'boot' til it tries to mount the root filesystem on fd0c > >"changing root device to fd0c" .. it just rattles on the disk forever. > > The ThinkPad uses some memory in the upper part first megabyte that > 'normal' PC BIOSes do not. > > Try gopher://ftp.netbsd.org to get to the NetBSD mail archive for more > details as to how it was fixed under NetBSD. I have a ThinkPad 750C sitting about 2 feet next to me that I can test bootdisks on, though it's not going to be running FreeBSD for a while since I need it for work. If anyone wants to make the changes necessary I'd be willing to test them out. Nate
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