I'd be more than happy to do the pestering if some one could write down
a detailed description of exactly how the TP's BIOS is non-compliant.
I don't know enough about the boot process and BIOS to write such a
description.
Tom
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I attempt to boot a CD off of the TP600E and I get the following errors:
> >
> > "Can't work out which disk we are booting from."
> > "Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:"
> >
> > Then whenever it attmpts to access "disk0:" it goes to the floppy drive.
> >
> > Suggestions?
>
> Known weirdness in the TP's BIOS not handled properly by the
> bootloader. I don't have immediate plans to do anything about this;
> you could try hacking the loader to accept the 0x8b value and see if
> that actually works. Or you could pester IBM to DTRT.
>
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