From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 30 21: 8:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7346937B401; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28190; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:08:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29496; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:08:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14887.12853.75990.147280@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:08:05 -0700 (MST) To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-Reply-To: <200012010136.eB11afF01400@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200012010136.eB11afF01400@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > There was some discussion being kicked around by reliable sources > > recently that the actual problem is that the BIOS decides to blat the > > first partition whose type it does not recognize, rather than picking on > > 165 specifically. This is only slightly less stupid, but probably easier > > to fix. > > I'm in the process of digging a contact out in IBM's Thinkpad division (I > have some reasonable leads right now) and have been doing a fair amount > of testing on the systems available to me in support of this. > > Hopefully I'll have some better information, and ideally some results > fairly soon. Until then, and unless we see some BIOS disassembly going > on, I'd be inclined to defer any further speculation. Thanks Mike! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message