Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:28:53 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <14885.33573.918003.590753@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com> References: <200011291925.MAA21813@harmony.village.org> <200011291942.eATJgVF30682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com>
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> >>>> 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 <sizeof memory * 1.1>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. > > If you use the boot manager, you can have as many type 165 slices as > will fit in the partition table. That shouldn't be a problem. > > > I have a chance to play with one of the offending systems tonight; > > I'm going to try as many experiments as I can. > > It would be interesting to see whether the BIOS gets as far as the > floppy and CD-ROM drives, and if so whether you can boot from them. If you remove the hard-disk, yes. Otherwise, it's completely dead! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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