From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 13:35:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083F837B400; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eATLZM527082; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:35:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200011292135.eATLZM527082@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Robert Nordier Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads References: <200011292046.eATKka007392@nordier.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:46:35 +0200." <200011292046.eATKka007392@nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:35:22 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 Just FYI, but when I upgraded an old 3.0-current system to 4.1 on an old DEC Celebrus 6150 (150MHz PPro), the 2 sector boot0 caused booting problems. Based on this discussion, I went back to using the standard MBR (via /sbin/fdisk -B da0) and booting is working again. The work-around I was using was booting from a floppy. While this is hardly a modern peice of er, hardware, I hope that the datapoint might help. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message