From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 28 22: 6:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D025C37B400; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAT64r447741; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:34:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:34:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" , 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> References: <20001129154911.B47200@echunga.lemis.com> <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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