Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:34:00 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? Message-ID: <200109262234.f8QMY0Z21672@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:21:55 MDT." <200109260721.f8Q7Lt765347@harmony.village.org> References: <15280.49259.374816.666581@rast.cisco.com> <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> <15280.12140.840758.895895@rast.cisco.com> <200109251547.f8PFl5761215@harmony.village.org> <200109260721.f8Q7Lt765347@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 :-( :-( :-( >:-< I had an older system which had these same symptoms, and managed to "fix" it by building DOS partitions which started on a cylinder boundary. This wastes some space before the first DOS partition, but, well, it started working then. I don't know if this is the same as the problem in question, but in desperation of things to try, there's another one. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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