Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:55:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:43:03 %2B1030." <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com>
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> >> 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.
That was never the issue; Robert Nordier has confirmed that it'll be OK
without the active flag though.
> > 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 had been paying attention, you'd have seen (about half a dozen
times) that it doesn't.
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