From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 3 13:51:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 13:51:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [205.178.102.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59BD37B401 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [205.178.102.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:51:23 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:51:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3A2A4FDA.18588.159989@localhost> Return-Receipt-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Danny Braniss writes: > > }http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html > > Scary stuff! Unfortunately, when I try to load that page today I get: "Our Apologies. Information for the document /qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html was not found." As for all the conspiracy theories, I'd be more inclined to conclude that they just used that partition type by accident, because they just weren't thinking about *bsd at the time. I would think that in the future it would be trivial for IBM to release a BIOS update to correct it, and I see little reason for them not to. If not, FreeBSD could possibly work around it, but it would probably have a much greater impact on the FreeBSD community than it would on Thinkpad users, the vast majority of which (including myself) would probably never know what partition type the "suspend partition" used anyway. Otherwise, as someone else suggested, an option in sysinstall to install on a non-default partition type would at least give an alternative to those who aren't afraid of diverging from the norm in order to get it to work on one of those machines. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message