Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:26:09 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <41AFCEC1.1090403@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041203020355.GA59029@pit.databus.com> References: <20041202002939.GA2834@ns1.xcllnt.net> <41AF8017.4000206@freebsd.org> <16815.36304.188670.238045@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200412021621.17783.peter@wemm.org> <20041203020355.GA59029@pit.databus.com>
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Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > >>However, if the bios sees partition type 165 (FreeBSD), it freaks out >>and completely shuts down all USB support. Even for the bios keyboard >>service calls. >> >>If you boot MSDOS, for example.. the bios keyboard service calls are not >>disabled and keep working. > > > Pardon a naive question, but what would happen with a FreeBSD partition > whose type said something other than 165? What in fbsd checks the > partition type once booting starts? > It's very a fundamental value for being able to find and mount the partitions at boot. Scott
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