Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:58:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130095809.N48277@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:55:51PM -0800 References: <20001130084303.I48277@echunga.lemis.com> <200011292255.eATMtpF00992@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 14:55:51 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>>> 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. > > That was never the issue; Robert Nordier has confirmed that it'll be OK > without the active flag though. It sounds like that was the issue for you. What were you trying to say? >>> 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. > > If you had been paying attention, you'd have seen (about half a dozen > times) that it doesn't. I've been paying attention. But I don't believe everything everybody says. 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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