From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 11:23:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D6A37B400; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eATJNNQ67684; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:23:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA21750; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:23:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011291923.MAA21750@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Wemm Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Cc: David Wolfskill , nate@yogotech.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:36:54 PST." <200011291836.eATIauD82288@mobile.wemm.org> References: <200011291836.eATIauD82288@mobile.wemm.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:23:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmmm. And I thought that my experiences with Sony were bad. :-) One way aroudn this issue is to use a different partition type and hack FreeSBD to cope. But I don't suppose that the folks at IBM would be pelased to learn that they had collided with a partition typed used for the past 9 years. Given my experiences with large companies in the past, I'd say that one of two things is going on: 1) The support department has no clue and since it doesn't work, they say it isn't supported. They haven't even told engineering about the problem. or 2) There's a BIOS engineer who is trying to save his job by blaming FreeBSD for his own fuck up. Or he has too much ego to admit that he's wrong. My money is on the prima donna. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message