From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 12:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from nordier.com (c2-dbn-30.dial-up.net [196.34.155.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1FC37B400; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by nordier.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATKka007392; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:46:36 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from rnordier) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200011292046.eATKka007392@nordier.com> Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:46:35 +0200 (SAST) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200011291942.eATJgVF30682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 29, 2000 11:42:31 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > In message <200011291927.eATJRZF30602@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: > > : > > > : > Also, does anybody know if dangerously dedicated works :-) > > : > > : Still uses an active type 165 partition. 8) > > > > So what happens if you have two 165 partitions? Eg, have a dummy one > > that's 1M or M in size that has no FreeBSD disk > > label on it and comes before the real FreeBSD partition... > > No idea, yet. The FreeBSD bootstrap might not be happy with that, > although if the second one was active, it ought to work. > > I have a chance to play with one of the offending systems tonight; I'm > going to try as many experiments as I can. As far as boot2 is concerned, multiple FreeBSD partitions are fine. It will select the active partition (as flagged by the boot manager) if one exists, otherwise the first partition. So a possible workaround might involve having FreeBSD in a second type 165 partition. On a related topic (just to add my voice to other clarifications), FreeBSD 4.2 is still using John's two-sector version of boot0, but that almost certainly has nothing to do with what's going wrong on Thinkpads. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message