Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:53:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: webmaster@wmptl.com, bwoods2@uswest.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130085351.L48277@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129110537.0498b6c0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0700 References: <F279UH2s3CfuHS7tszy00007619@hotmail.com> <3A25415D.C7E9B04F@wmptl.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001129110537.0498b6c0@localhost>
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On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 11:12:27 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:48 AM 11/29/2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: >> I too have a NEWER IBM Thinkpad, and was truly disapointed; not by the >> fact that IBM doesn't support FreeBSD - that part was assumed... but >> rather by the fact that IBM made the bios incompatable with any type 165 >> partitions on a disk. Thus rendering the newer (Thinkpad A20M-series; eg >> my 2428U) laptops incapable of running FreeBSD. When asked about some >> sort of bios patch to disable the suspend/resume function's usage of >> type 165; IBM just replies 'we don't support using freebsd on these >> machines; but we do now support using caldera's eDesktop 2.4 on them'. >> So I went with Slackware 7.1 just for the record. If anyone does find a >> way to run FreeBSD on something other than type 165 partitions I'd love >> to hear about it. > > If the problem is purely the integer assigned as the partition type, > why not patch the code to allow an alternate number? Well, it's a support nightmare, but that seems to be the thing to do. > Also, do any of the other BSDs happen to use a different number? Yes, they all do. NetBSD uses 169, OpenBSD uses 166. I'm going to send a message to both groups. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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