Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:48:11 -0600 From: dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com> To: chip@chocobo.cx, Chip Marshall <chip@setzer.chocobo.cx>, "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Message-ID: <0004111150370S.00719@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> In-Reply-To: <20000411133625.A65032@setzer.chocobo.cx> References: <200004111705.KAA06084@freeway.dcfinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004111014080.12331-100000@freeby.mesanet.com> <20000411133625.A65032@setzer.chocobo.cx>
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hi all, > I've been doing some reading about the new ones. Near as anyone can > tell, there is the new BIOS version, which disallows booting from > anything other than the SanDisk, and has been epoxied to the MB. Also, > rumour has it that 4 of the IDE pins have been snipped off, but they > are just the power pins, so it's not a big deal. > You can purchase a new (old) BIOS chip from www.badflash.com for about > $20USD. that is good news! > There has also been a rumor that the new BIOS won't let you boot if > the OS on the SanDisk is not QNX, but I don't know if there is any > truth behind it. A friend of mine got his I-Opener yesterday, and is > attempting to pu NetBSD on the flash, so we will soon find out. read something like that is what they are doing which is bad karma IMHO:-)) well 'if' the manufacturer is found then most liely they would sell the unscrewedup version.. if they are not in a exclusive arrangement but somehow i doubt it.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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