Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:48:34 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <14885.16754.561866.45663@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200011291742.eATHgab33616@pau-amma.whistle.com> References: <14885.15948.729037.110372@nomad.yogotech.com> <200011291742.eATHgab33616@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> >> So, while I don't know what IBM is doing with partition type 165, > >> I am convinced it is a key to the boot lock-up problem for the > >> T21 and A21P. Now boot0 has grown from 1 to 2 sectors in length, > >> maybe that's what "the story inside IBM" is trying to talk about - > >> I don't know. > > >Didn't Robert shrink it back to 1 sector after 4.1 was released? It > >would be interesting to know if the 'smaller' bootblock worked as well. > > No; jhb found that there was a bug in the boot0 code & fixed it. My > archived mail shows that most of the work occurred on 04 August. Hmm, the log message I'm reading says: date: 2000/10/02 17:30:22; author: rnordier; state: Exp; lines: +77 -151 Go back to occupying just a single sector, reverting r1.17 - r1.20. [SNIP This is the last commit made to the boot0 code for i386. Ahh, but this code didn't make it back into FreeBSD 4.X, so 4.2 *might* still be succeptible if this is a 2-sector boot0 bug. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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