Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 09:12:11 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Paul Southworth <pauls@etext.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ken Key <key@network-alchemy.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Continuing ThinkPad saga Message-ID: <200012091712.eB9HCBS13009@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012071031120.24248-100000@locust.etext.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012071031120.24248-100000@locust.etext.org>
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--==_Exmh_1097108040P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Paul Southworth wrote: > I used a Thinkpad 600E to alter the disk each time, since the T20 can't be > booted from CD or floppy if there is a FreeBSD part on the disk. I did a (non-recommended) workaround, which consisted of removing the disk from the machine with the power off, bring it up to get to a menu of boot devices, and then hot-inserting the disk. So far I've been lucky in that I haven't fried the disk. It's physically possible to do this, but I don't recommend it and I take no responsibility for any damage to anything if you (or anyone else) does it. > I concluded that this has nothing to do with FreeBSD's boot block and is > more likely related to the partition type. Altering the FreeBSD booter to > support alternate partition types appears to be the simplest workaround, > though perhaps morally repugnant. Yeah, like I said, that's what I ended up doing. I can put my boot1 and boot2 files (for booting off an OpenBSD partition type) someplace accessible if there's interest. It's a real hack, and the way I did it, you can *only* put FreeBSD in an OpenBSD-type partition, and you probably can't dual-boot between FreeBSD and OpenBSD either. But at least it boots. :-p Bruce. --==_Exmh_1097108040P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6Mmfr2MoxcVugUsMRAh7NAJ9HaOJB+oOqABGs8Nyt0g6qqTJePgCgkcAm Q+pSYTxoUDIMjNdvCUtIXco= =IEib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1097108040P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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