From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 30 19:17:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F27A37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA09819; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:16:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAkWayWs; Thu Nov 30 20:16:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18494; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:17:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200012010317.UAA18494@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ragnar@sysabend.org (Jamie Bowden), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001130173952.0495e760@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Nov 30, 2000 05:41:09 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >I used OS/2's boot manager for a very long time and still would if OS/2 > >Warp would install on my current hardware, but having also bought > >Partition Magic, I have found Boot Magic to be a very good replacement. > > Do the IBM Boot Manager and Boot Magic replace the BIOS hard disk code > as OnTrack Disk Manager does? It seems to me that this is what might be > needed to get things working if the original AT BIOS can't handle the > drive. You are speaking about the LBA emulation mode, which uses the boot sector to load a TSR that handles LBA mode by doing translation/augmentation of the requests to the disk which are normally fielded by the BIOS. The answer is "No, they do not do this". This is not relevent to the ThinkPad problem, since that's related to the BIOS not having the FreeBSD partition ID in their list of sacred partition IDs. They have the Linux partition ID in this list in recent BIOS. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message