From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 9:23: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from area51.slashnet.org (area51.slashnet.org [208.222.214.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE02E37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.107.69]) by area51.slashnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A3614D4D0; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:22:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 564D59884; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:22:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:22:50 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's Message-ID: <20001130112250.A56422@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se>; from gunnar@pluto.sr.se on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > Is this really the situation, that FreeBSD is not booting on the latest > IBM thinkpads? That would really be a pity, since I was going to buy > such a nice little beast after newyear. > > http://bsdtoday.com/2000/November/News342.html According to Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/29/1855248) the problem is because IBM uses the same partition type as FFS for their suspend partition. So when it boots, it finds FreeBSD and/or the suspend partition and... I'm not sure where Slashdot got that information, but it makes sense (to me at least). -- Sean Kelly or PGP KeyID: 77042C7B http://www.sean-kelly.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message