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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:57:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM 600E installation  with FreeBSD 3.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210052251060.9540-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021005235120.GW9799@arpa.com>

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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Chip Norkus wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:51:20 -0500
> From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: IBM 600E installation  with FreeBSD 3.5
> 
> On Sat Oct 05, 2002; 12:39PM -0400 ram.gopal@nokia.com propagated the following:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I tried to install FreeBSD 3.5 on IBM 600E Laptop ,  the following error message pops up but 4.4 is working properly on the same type of machine.
> 
> Hi.  I've got a 600E.  Make sure you've got the absolute latest BIOS
> updates from IBM.  Also, you probably won't have any luck getting the sound
> working. :/  Good luck!
> 

That does sound like an aged BIOS. How old is the 600e? Also, I was able 
to get sound working only with the onboard modem disabled (ps2.exe or 
win32 thinkpad utility). 

> > ===================================================
> > /boot.config: -P
> > Keyboard: yes
> > -
> > BTX loader 1.00 BTX versionis 1.01
> > Console: internal video/keyboard
> > BIOS drive A: is disk0
> > BIOS drive C: is disk1
> > 
> > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 638/65535kB
> > (jkh@monster.osd.bsdi.com, Thu Jul 20 01:51:51 GMT 2000) 
> > Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> > Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
> >  
> > =====================================================
> > 
<snip>

The BIOS on my 600e didnt assign drive letters like this. Why is it 
reading a:? Possibly you need to re-write your MBR?

Good luck - JB



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