Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:46:35 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Cc: 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: <200011292046.eATKka007392@nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <200011291942.eATJgVF30682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 29, 2000 11:42:31 AM
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Mike Smith wrote: > > In message <200011291927.eATJRZF30602@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: > > : > > > : > Also, does anybody know if dangerously dedicated works :-) > > : > > : Still uses an active type 165 partition. 8) > > > > So what happens if you have two 165 partitions? Eg, have a dummy one > > that's 1M or <sizeof memory * 1.1>M in size that has no FreeBSD disk > > label on it and comes before the real FreeBSD partition... > > No idea, yet. The FreeBSD bootstrap might not be happy with that, > although if the second one was active, it ought to work. > > I have a chance to play with one of the offending systems tonight; I'm > going to try as many experiments as I can. As far as boot2 is concerned, multiple FreeBSD partitions are fine. It will select the active partition (as flagged by the boot manager) if one exists, otherwise the first partition. So a possible workaround might involve having FreeBSD in a second type 165 partition. 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. -- 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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