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From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ThinkPad's & FreeBSD
Date: 18 Mar 1995 21:55:43 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In-reply-to: kuhtzc0580@cobra.uni.edu's message of 17 Mar 95 09:31:20 -0600

>I've just tried to boot a ThinkPad 700C with a kcopy ah bootdisk.. it'll  
>'boot' til it tries to mount the root filesystem on fd0c               
>"changing root device to fd0c" .. it just rattles on the disk forever. 

The ThinkPad uses some memory in the upper part first megabyte that
'normal' PC BIOSes do not.

Try gopher://ftp.netbsd.org to get to the NetBSD mail archive for more
details as to how it was fixed under NetBSD.