From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 9:43: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CA637B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eATHgva09793; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com( 207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009788; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:36 -0800 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATHgab33616; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:36 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200011291742.eATHgab33616@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Cc: mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14885.15948.729037.110372@nomad.yogotech.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: Nate Williams >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