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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:56 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0-snap available
Message-ID:  <200511071743.57482.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <436FCD0F.2010704@freebsd.org>
References:  <436CB6EB.4080402@freebsd.org> <200511071141.16445.jhb@freebsd.org> <436FCD0F.2010704@freebsd.org>

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On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote:
>  > >I even suspect the same would happen on i386.
>  >
>  > No, it isn't.
>
>   OK, I'm happy to stand corrected.
>
> > probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open
> > still.  Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?
>
>   More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count
> being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has
> support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled.
>
>   So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :)

Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up.  I guess I'd need 
to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc.  Having the built-in 
keyboard work would be an added incentive. :)  It sure gets better battery 
life than my current freebsd luggable.  (45 minutes without wireless if I'm 
lucky, more like 15 with wireless)

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org



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