Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:43:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011291942.eATJgVF30682@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:42:31AM -0800 References: <200011291925.MAA21813@harmony.village.org> <200011291942.eATJgVF30682@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 11:42:31 -0800, 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. If you use the boot manager, you can have as many type 165 slices as will fit in the partition table. That shouldn't be a problem. > I have a chance to play with one of the offending systems tonight; > I'm going to try as many experiments as I can. It would be interesting to see whether the BIOS gets as far as the floppy and CD-ROM drives, and if so whether you can boot from them. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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