Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:18:16 -0400 From: "Nathan Vidican" <nathan@vidican.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD, IBM Thinkpad A20m, and/or OpenBSD Message-ID: <000a01c032f7$3a05e670$357d30ce@jsv1>
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I understand that FreeBSD uses partition type 165, and that placing a bootable 165 partition on my IBM ThinkPad A20m really screws things up. (The system will not start, as it's 'suspend' and 'hibernate' functions also apparently utilize type 165). My question is this: #1 - What if I were to install FreeBSD and leave the master boot record untouched? Could I not in theory then use BootMagic to boot FreeBSD? Or would this still screw-up the laptop? #2 - Would installing OpenBSD use a different type of partition all-together? While I would prefer to run FreeBSD, I could at least run OpenBSD for backwards-compatability with my other FreeBSD machines. I do not know if OpenBSD uses type 165, or not though. I've only ever used OpenBSD 2.6/2.7 for the SPARC platform. but I assume that OpenBSd/i386 would be very similar. Any arguments, comments, suggestions, or shared experiences on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com http://nathan.vidican.com/ CSE / Systems Integrator Innovative Products Sales LLC http://www.4innovative.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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