Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:34:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com>, jamin@eecs.umich.edu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001129163453.F47200@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0800 References: <20001129154911.B47200@echunga.lemis.com> <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tuesday, 28 November 2000 at 21:51:19 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> No. Some fool at IBM (or whomever they contracted the BIOS development >>> out to) decided to use partition ID 165 for the suspend-to-disk >>> partition, and the IBM BIOS gets very, very upset when it finds what it >>> thinks is an enormous suspend-to-disk partition on the disk. >> >> Are you sure of this? I know the idea had been bandied around, but so >> had some others. If we go to IBM with claims like this, and they turn >> out to be incorrect, we'll be shooting ourselves in the foot. > > Oh, I almost forgot to mention. > > One of the stories going around inside IBM about why there is a > problem with these laptops and FreeBSD claims that "FreeBSD puts the > boot sector somewhere nonstandard and the BIOS can't find it". > > Whose foot was that, again? 8) So far, I don't know. As you say, it's just a story going around. It could be wrong. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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