Ok I just tried some other mods... the first was to hard-wire disk0 to
be bios device 0x8b. no-go. The second was to patch to 'continue' if it
missed a probe, and to limit the probe to the first 0x10 entries... for
example: 0x00-0x0f and 0x80-0x8f.
How is it that the old boot code works? Wha
I modified the biosdisk.c code as follows
(first part of function)
for (unit=0;unitbi_bios_dev)
break;
if ((unit == nbdinfo ) && (nbdinfo < MAXBDDEV) ) {
unit=initial_bootinfo->bi_bios_dev;
bdinfo[nbdinfo].bd_unit=unit;
bdinfo[nbdinfo].bd_flags=(unit <
>
> 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.
It's expected that the BIOS numbers disk units sequentially; fl
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
> 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?
K
I see the same problem when trying to boot FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE (or there
abouts) and later cdroms on my TP770.
I can boot FreeBSD-2.2.8 and earlier FreeBSD-3.0-SNAP cdroms just fine. I
think it has something to do with the new boot loader that went in just
before 3.0-RELEASE.
Tom
On Fri, 13 A
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?
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David Cross
