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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:32:54 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Cc:        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads
Message-ID:  <200011292232.eATMWtY08834@nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011292135.eATLZM527082@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Nov 29, 2000 04:35:22 PM

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Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

Useful to know, thanks.

-- 
Robert Nordier

rnordier@nordier.com
rnordier@FreeBSD.org


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