From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 14:42:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vaasje.org (node10627.a2000.nl [24.132.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9F337B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.vaasje.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 153F57809; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:38:24 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:38:23 +0100 From: Frank van der Linden To: Greg Lehey Cc: NetBSD-users@NetBSD.org, misc@OpenBSD.org, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Problems running NetBSD or OpenBSD on newer IBM laptops? Message-ID: <20001129233823.A4620@vaasje.org> References: <20001130090555.A53001@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: <20001130090555.A53001@echunga.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:05:55AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:05:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > In the last couple of days we've been having a discussion in the > FreeBSD mobile list about a bug in newer IBM laptops. See > http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html for more details. > Basically, it seems that the IBM BIOS uses partition type 165 for its > own purposes, and goes crazy if it doesn't find what it wants in it: If type 165 is the problem, then NetBSD will certainly not have that problem, since it uses 169 these days. - Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message