From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 15:29:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A58537B400; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:29:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eATNSBd53685; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:58:11 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:58:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130095809.N48277@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com> <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:55:51PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 14:55:51 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>>> 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. It sounds like that was the issue for you. What were you trying to say? >>> 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. I've been paying attention. But I don't believe everything everybody says. 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