Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:22:50 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's Message-ID: <20001130112250.A56422@edgemaster.zombie.org> In-Reply-To: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se>; from gunnar@pluto.sr.se on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:07:24PM %2B0100 References: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > Is this really the situation, that FreeBSD is not booting on the latest > IBM thinkpads? That would really be a pity, since I was going to buy > such a nice little beast after newyear. > > http://bsdtoday.com/2000/November/News342.html According to Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/29/1855248) the problem is because IBM uses the same partition type as FFS for their suspend partition. So when it boots, it finds FreeBSD and/or the suspend partition and... I'm not sure where Slashdot got that information, but it makes sense (to me at least). -- Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> or <smkelly@slashnet.org> PGP KeyID: 77042C7B http://www.sean-kelly.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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