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Date:      Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:15:21 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0-snap available
Message-ID:  <1131574521.28209.2.camel@innercity.xbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511071743.57482.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <436CB6EB.4080402@freebsd.org> <200511071141.16445.jhb@freebsd.org> <436FCD0F.2010704@freebsd.org> <200511071743.57482.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:43 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote:
> >  > >I even suspect the same would happen on i386.
> >  >
> >  > No, it isn't.
> >
> >   OK, I'm happy to stand corrected.
> >
> > > probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open
> > > still.  Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?
> >
> >   More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count
> > being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has
> > support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled.
> >
> >   So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :)
>=20
> Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up.  I guess I'd n=
eed=20
> to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc.  Having the built-i=
n=20
> keyboard work would be an added incentive. :)  It sure gets better batter=
y=20
> life than my current freebsd luggable.  (45 minutes without wireless if I=
'm=20
> lucky, more like 15 with wireless)

	I'd be interested if you find a way to shrink your Tiger=20
	partition. I've been pondering reinstalling Tiger for weeks but=20
	if I could find something else, that could save me from=20
	(useless) backups.

	Anyway, I thought that latest Powerbook's keyboards were=20
	supported (as I advertised in platforms/ppc.html :))

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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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