Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:58:27 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Ken Key <key@network-alchemy.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <14885.17347.829870.189806@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200011291756.JAA88464@sodium.cips.nokia.com> References: <14885.15948.729037.110372@nomad.yogotech.com> <200011291756.JAA88464@sodium.cips.nokia.com>
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> > 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. > > I was using the v4.2 release ISO image (the one with the broken PC98). > I got rather intimate with the boot0.s, boot1.s, boot2.s code last week > when I tried changing the partition number to something else. I would > almost swear that boot0 was still 1K, but I don't have it on hand to confirm > that. It is. I just verified that the change from 1K -> 512 was only made on the HEAD, and never back-ported to 4.X. > I also got the hang after install from a v4.0 disk, which I believe is > only 1 sector. I was brute forcing the combinations pretty hard. So, it still hung with a one-sector boot? That is different from my experience, so it may be we have a plethora of messups at IBM. :( :( > Please note, that using LILO as the MBR instead of boot0 still gave me > this hang-at-the-BIOS-prompt issue, so I'm pretty confident it is > independant of the size of boot0. I would love to be shown wrong, > though. Sounds like you've covered the bases. > > (The box we're using is an A20, so it may be different from the A21 > > problem..) > > Yup, we have a pair of T20's here that are happily running FreeBSD. They > had some issues, but not this hard hang. I had this hang on T21 and > A21P. I hope that I'll be able to test an X20 an A20P in the upcoming > month, but the engineers that own those machines are rather hesitant > considering what's been happening with the *21's. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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