From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 10: 1:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D66637B404 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03937 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:01:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07142 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:01:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G4UNEW00.9WL; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:01:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3A2695F4.C65EB5E2@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:01:24 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Kelly Cc: Gunnar Flygt , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's References: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se> <20001130112250.A56422@edgemaster.zombie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Kelly wrote: > > 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). Check -mobile for an ongoing thread about the *21 series Thinkpad. The partition type is the best theory for now, but the jury is still out until people with Thinkpads get a bit more testing done. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message