On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Chip Norkus wrote: > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:51:20 -0500 > From: Chip Norkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IBM 600E installation with FreeBSD 3.5 > > On Sat Oct 05, 2002; 12:39PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 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 # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
