From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 10:14:31 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 9EE0937B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eATIESh10355; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com( 207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma010353; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:26 -0800 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATIEQ833818; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200011291814.eATIEQ833818@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: <14885.16754.561866.45663@nomad.yogotech.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: Nate Williams >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:48:34 -0700 (MST) >> >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. >Hmm, the log message I'm reading says: > date: 2000/10/02 17:30:22; author: rnordier; state: Exp; lines: +77 -151 > Go back to occupying just a single sector, reverting r1.17 - r1.20. >[SNIP Right; I expressed myself poorly: what I meant by the above is that the thing that fixed the boot-hang (back in August) was not a change in the size of boot0, but jhb locating & fixing a bug. (I meant no slight to either jhb or rnordier; I hope that's clear.) >This is the last commit made to the boot0 code for i386. Ahh, but this >code didn't make it back into FreeBSD 4.X, so 4.2 *might* still be >succeptible if this is a 2-sector boot0 bug. True, though other evidence (in this thread) indicates that at least part of the problem occurs even if a single sector is all that is used. 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