Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:32:54 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <200011292232.eATMWtY08834@nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <200011292135.eATLZM527082@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Nov 29, 2000 04:35:22 PM
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Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > > On a related topic (just to add my voice to other clarifications), > > FreeBSD 4.2 is still using John's two-sector version of boot0, but > > that almost certainly has nothing to do with what's going wrong on > > Thinkpads > > Just FYI, but when I upgraded an old 3.0-current system to 4.1 on an old > DEC Celebrus 6150 (150MHz PPro), the 2 sector boot0 caused booting > problems. Based on this discussion, I went back to using the standard > MBR (via /sbin/fdisk -B da0) and booting is working again. > > The work-around I was using was booting from a floppy. > > While this is hardly a modern peice of er, hardware, I hope that the > datapoint might help. Useful to know, thanks. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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