Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:15:39 -0500 (EST) From: Lei Z <lei@m-net.arbornet.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has anyone tried this trick? Message-ID: <20031212044810.J41983-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031209232514.W39190@sasami.jurai.net>
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Thanks for all the inputs. I have contacted HP technical support by email. They suggested that the BIOS information should be updated to reflect the new hard disk parameter, which could have changed, through a sequence of function keys after cold boot. I will try it, and also PXE boot, when I find time. As I can always set up a primary DOS partition (FAT32 with DOS only) on desktop and boot up the notebook with it with no problem (weird ?), I have put a copy of zipslack on it, created e2fs on /dev/hda5 with it from the notebook, and moved the linux to the extended partition. X is running fine as expected and I boot into linux using loadlin now. So the trick could be that I need to clear up the partition table first, run fdisk, and create the file systems all on the notebook, using the BIOS parameters. BSD's might have a better chance than other OS's to get around this as it relies less on the BIOS disk setting. Thanks again to the folks who have given their input. Lei
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