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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> However, if the bios sees partition type 165 (FreeBSD), it freaks out 
> and completely shuts down all USB support.  Even for the bios keyboard 
> service calls.
> 
> If you boot MSDOS, for example.. the bios keyboard service calls are not 
> disabled and keep working.

Pardon a naive question, but what would happen with a FreeBSD partition
whose type said something other than 165?  What in fbsd checks the
partition type once booting starts?

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