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To: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? 
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:21:55 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> Richard Johnson writes:
: Thanks for the responses!
: 
: Warner Losh writes:
:  > Actaully, all 2.5" IDE disks *DO* have the same pinout.  At least all
:  > the ones that have passed through my hot little hands (to be fair,
:  > that's only about 40 total with 15 different models).  I've seen the
:  > biggest problem between laptops is the suspend to disk partition.
:  > Some BIOSes get grumpy when it isn't there, or has garbage in it.
: 
: In this case, the system recognizes the drive and I can even install
: FreeBSD on it with no problems, however when I try to boot from it I
: see:
: 	F1 DOS
: 	F2 FreeBSD
: and whichever one you select it simply beeps and does nothing.

The it is a BIOS geometry issue. :-(  Those range from easy to
impossible to fix :-( :-( :-( >:-<

Wanrer

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