[Oberon] Boot N-O/Aos on Toshiba Satellite A20 laptop

[Dan Parnete]

Hello,

Could anybody help me to install N-O and Aos on a Toshiba Satellite A20 
laptop ?
I supose it doesn't guess the video controller. The information I have 
from Windows XP is:

    Trident CyberALADDiN-P4 v6.4612.22ICD_SE_NP
    Mem:   FC000000 - FDFFFFFF
                FBC00000 - FBFFFFFF
                F8000000 - F9FFFFFF
                F7FF8000 - F7FFFFFF
    IRQ:     11
    I/O:       03B0 - 03BB
                 03C0 - 03DF
    Mem:    000A0000 - 000BFFFF

I was able to boot only from a CD image of PC-Nativ 11.10.2001 which 
gently starts in VGA 640x480 mode, and the result of PCITool.Scan is:

Bus 0, device 0, function 0: class/rev 06000000, vendor/device 10B91672, 
status/cmd A2100007
    Class: Bridge, Sub-class: Host bridge
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: Unknown
        128MB prefetchable 32-bit memory at E8000000 - EFFFFFFF

Bus 0, device 1, function 0: class/rev 06040000, vendor/device 10B95247, 
status/cmd 04200007
    Class: Bridge, Sub-class: PCI bridge, ProgIntfc: Normal decode
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: M5247

Bus 1, device 0, function 0: class/rev 03000082, vendor/device 10238820, 
status/cmd 02300007
    Class: Display controller, Sub-class: VGA compatible controller, 
ProgIntfc: VGA
    Vendor: Trident Microsystems, Device: Unknown
        IRQ11, INTA
        32MB 32-bit memory at FC000000 - FDFFFFFF
        4MB 32-bit memory at FBC00000 - FBFFFFFF
        32MB 32-bit memory at F8000000 - F9FFFFFF
        32KB 32-bit memory at F7FF8000 - F7FFFFFF

Bus 0, device 4, function 0: class/rev 0101F0C4, vendor/device 10B95229, 
status/cmd 02900005
    Class: Mass storage controller, Sub-class: IDE interface
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: M5229 IDE
        IRQ255, INTA
        16B I/O at 0000EFF0 - 0000EFFF

Bus 0, device 6, function 0: class/rev 04010002, vendor/device 10B95451, 
status/cmd C2900000
    Class: Multimedia controller, Sub-class: Multimedia audio controller
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: Unknown
        IRQ255, INTA
        256B I/O at 00000000 - 000000FF

Bus 0, device 7, function 0: class/rev 06010000, vendor/device 10B91533, 
status/cmd 0210000F
    Class: Bridge, Sub-class: ISA bridge
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: M1533 PCI to ISA 
Bridge [Aladdin IV]

Bus 0, device 8, function 0: class/rev 06800000, vendor/device 10B97101, 
status/cmd 02000000
    Class: Bridge, Sub-class: Bridge
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: M7101 PMU

Bus 0, device 9, function 0: class/rev 07030000, vendor/device 10B95457, 
status/cmd 02900000
    Class: Communication controller, Sub-class: Modem, ProgIntfc: Generic
    Vendor: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi], Device: Unknown
        IRQ255, INTA
        256B I/O at 00000000 - 000000FF

Bus 0, device 10, function 0: class/rev 02000010, vendor/device 
10EC8139, status/cmd 02900007
    Class: Network controller, Sub-class: Ethernet controller
    Vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Device: RTL-8139
        IRQ11, INTA
        256B I/O at 0000ED00 - 0000EDFF
        256B 32-bit memory at F7EFFF00 - F7EFFFFF

Bus 0, device 12, function 0: class/rev 0C031043, vendor/device 
10330035, status/cmd 02100006
    Class: Serial bus controller, Sub-class: USB Controller, ProgIntfc: OHCI
    Vendor: NEC Corporation, Device: USB
        IRQ11, INTA
        4KB 32-bit memory at F7EFE000 - F7EFEFFF

Bus 0, device 12, function 1: class/rev 0C031043, vendor/device 
10330035, status/cmd 02100000
    Class: Serial bus controller, Sub-class: USB Controller, ProgIntfc: OHCI
    Vendor: NEC Corporation, Device: USB
        IRQ255, INTB

Bus 0, device 12, function 2: class/rev 0C032004, vendor/device 
103300E0, status/cmd 02100000
    Class: Serial bus controller, Sub-class: USB Controller
    Vendor: NEC Corporation, Device: Unknown
        IRQ255, INTC

Bus 0, device 17, function 0: class/rev 06070033, vendor/device 
11790617, status/cmd 04900007
    Class: Bridge, Sub-class: CardBus bridge
    Vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems, Device: ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus 
Bridge with ZV Support
        IRQ255, INTA

Bus 0, device 18, function 0: class/rev 08800005, vendor/device 
11790805, status/cmd 02100000
    Class: Generic system peripheral, Sub-class: System peripheral
    Vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems, Device: Unknown
        IRQ255, INTA

14 devices found

The strange thing is that booting from a floppy (external USB) the last 
version of N-O, with the same Init string, doesn't work:
    Init = b81200cd10bb003fb80110cd10
Not talking about booting from the Aos CD, witch reboot the system after 
few seconds.

Thanks,
Dan Parnete