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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
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