From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 18:46:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA09078 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 18:46:11 -0800 Received: from po8.andrew.cmu.edu (PO8.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.108]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA09071 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 18:46:10 -0800 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po8.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA17454 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:46:04 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:46:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs26.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:44:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs26.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:44:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jan.26.1995.18.43.47.sun4c.411.EzMail.Phred.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.pcs26.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.pcs26.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:44:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:44:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: eh? In-Reply-To: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> References: <199503192128.NAA23519@violet.berkeley.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 19-Mar-95 eh? by Jordan K. Hubbard@violet > >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. I'm tying on a 750 as we speak. don't know how close it is to the 700 though. in netbsd you have to use 4k less memory then the probed amound (ie, biosbasemem -= 4 in arch/i386/i386/machdep.c). now to get the pcmcia slots working :) alex