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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        nate@yogotech.com
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads
Message-ID:  <200011291742.eATHgab33616@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <14885.15948.729037.110372@nomad.yogotech.com>

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>From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:35:08 -0700 (MST)

>> So, while I don't know what IBM is doing with partition type 165, 
>> I am convinced it is a key to the boot lock-up problem for the 
>> T21 and A21P.  Now boot0 has grown from 1 to 2 sectors in length, 
>> maybe that's what "the story inside IBM" is trying to talk about - 
>> I don't know.

>Didn't Robert shrink it back to 1 sector after 4.1 was released?  It
>would be interesting to know if the 'smaller' bootblock worked as well.

No; jhb found that there was a bug in the boot0 code & fixed it.  My
archived mail shows that most of the work occurred on 04 August.

(It affected the Intellistations we use for Engineers' workstations,
too, so I had an incentive to help fix it.)

Cheers,
david
-- 
David Wolfskill      dhw@whistle.com   UNIX System Administrator
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