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 Desk: 650/577-7158 TIE: 8/499-7158 Cell: 650/759-0823 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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