From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 14:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (dhcp244.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367C237B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eATMtpF00992; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:43:03 +1030." <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:55:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> So what happens if you have two 165 partitions? Eg, have a dummy one > >> that's 1M or 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message