08-11-2024, 04:58 PM
(08-10-2024, 03:32 PM)grindstone Wrote: Never having had any Toshibas, still looking for BIOS info. Pretty funny I just found the Satellite Pro 4200 Manual you uploaded on the wayback (Thanks @majenko!)...
Not that you haven't tried this, but just another idea:
Could there be some Int13h thing screwing with LBA on that device (but maybe not on another device?) Say, for example, you fashion a CD with PloP on it and boot that to try to get a USB (different hardware device to BIOS) to boot?
I know it shouldn't be different, but maybe it is...
It's unlikely, since I have had other linuxes (linuces?) working (though none have worked in the way I want through either being too old to support the hardware I need, or just plain strange like Tiny Core).
There are certainly strange things, hardware wise, on this laptop though - the soundcard (a Yamaha SD-XG) isn't supported properly by any Linux I've found yet, and that soundcard is specifically what I want to use on this laptop - I'm looking to turn it into a MIDI synth with a USB MIDI input piping through direct to the XG synth. The *only* OS I have found so far that does work with it is Windows 98. Even XP won't work with the SD-XG and only gives me the OPL3. So I've gone back to 98 for the time being - I'll revisit Linux again some time - and now just need to find a USB MIDI adapter that doesn't bluescreen Windows 98 and actually works....