From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 9 9:12:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 09:12:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (unknown [171.71.163.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5C837B400; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA17504; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:12:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB9HCBS13009; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200012091712.eB9HCBS13009@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Paul Southworth Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Ken Key , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Continuing ThinkPad saga In-Reply-To: References: Comments: In-reply-to Paul Southworth message dated "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:48:03 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1097108040P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 09:12:11 -0800 Sender: bmah@cisco.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_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