From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 20:58:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (adsl-64-163-195-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.163.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DE637B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:58:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAU4wGD87940; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200011300458.eAU4wGD87940@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Frank van der Linden Cc: Greg Lehey , NetBSD-users@NetBSD.org, misc@OpenBSD.org, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Problems running NetBSD or OpenBSD on newer IBM laptops? In-Reply-To: <20001129233823.A4620@vaasje.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:58:16 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Frank van der Linden wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:05:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > In the last couple of days we've been having a discussion in the > > FreeBSD mobile list about a bug in newer IBM laptops. See > > http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html for more details. > > Basically, it seems that the IBM BIOS uses partition type 165 for its > > own purposes, and goes crazy if it doesn't find what it wants in it: > > If type 165 is the problem, then NetBSD will certainly not have that problem, > since it uses 169 these days. I half wonder if we should make FreeBSD recognize a secondary partition type as well, just in case. For example, our fdisk.c suggests that 168 (0xA8) and 175 (0xAF) are free.. Maybe one of them? Then we can try using the alternate on the wretched thinkpads (sysinstall will let the user put in any partition type they want). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message