From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 30 3: 6:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D00B37B4EC for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 03:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0UB6lo02051; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 03:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101301106.f0UB6lo02051@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New IBM BIOS upgrade fixes problem booting from FreeBSD slices In-reply-to: Your message of "30 Jan 2001 11:51:36 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 03:06:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Looks like IBM got out of denial mode... Quote from the URL provided > in the included mail: "(Fix) System can not boot from a hard disk with > partition ID of n5h.(n is 1 or greater)" As of right now, this isn't visible across the entire range; e.g. it's not being reflected in the X20, A21p BIOS updates. Hopefully as new BIOS revisions are spun for these systems, the fix will cross-propagate. Thanks for the heads-up - nobody I've been talking to has said anything at all. 8( -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message