From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 30 17:28:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-34.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945A537B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:28:19 -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 eB11afF01400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200012010136.eB11afF01400@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Barton 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 17:16:52 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:36:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > There was some discussion being kicked around by reliable sources > recently that the actual problem is that the BIOS decides to blat the > first partition whose type it does not recognize, rather than picking on > 165 specifically. This is only slightly less stupid, but probably easier > to fix. I'm in the process of digging a contact out in IBM's Thinkpad division (I have some reasonable leads right now) and have been doing a fair amount of testing on the systems available to me in support of this. Hopefully I'll have some better information, and ideally some results fairly soon. Until then, and unless we see some BIOS disassembly going on, I'd be inclined to defer any further speculation. I'll get back to the list when I know more. -- ... 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