Re: Has anyone tried this trick?
Robert Blacquiere <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:46:10PM -0500, Lei Z wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > I bought an Armada m300 (it came with no floppy or CD-ROM drive) from ebay > a few days ago. Try pxebooting of the laptop, i've got the same notebook and the intel pxe boot works. There is a document on the web about jumpstarting FreeBSD that's a usefull guide to do the install. >I tried various possibilities to get this to work. When > the laptop hard disk was in the desktop, it worked flawlessly just like a > regular desktop hard disk with every OS I tested with including DOS, win > 98, win2k (no chance to try FreeBSD yet). But after I put it back to the > laptop with installed OS, the partition was recognized and bootable only > when DOS was installed. When the primary partion was installed with win98, > or win2k, the disk is simply not bootable. Also, DOS extended partition is > not recognized in the laptop either. I created the primary partition under > DOS, during Windows 2000 installation, or under desktop's Windows XP > (laptop disk mounted as slave), but the results were mostly the same. Net boot seems to be a good alternative. > > Is this a BIOS incompatibility, or something else? Has anybody got > successful experience with this trick? A quick search showed that Armada > m300 doesn't seem to have a special reserved partition like some other > laptops. Thanks for any hints, suggestions to get this work. > > Leo > > Robert -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? OpenBSD: Hey guys you left some holes out there! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"