Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:01:24 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's Message-ID: <3A2695F4.C65EB5E2@mitre.org> References: <20001130180724.A45345@sr.se> <20001130112250.A56422@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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Sean Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > Is this really the situation, that FreeBSD is not booting on the latest > > IBM thinkpads? That would really be a pity, since I was going to buy > > such a nice little beast after newyear. > > > > http://bsdtoday.com/2000/November/News342.html > > According to Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/29/1855248) > the problem is because IBM uses the same partition type as FFS for their > suspend partition. So when it boots, it finds FreeBSD and/or the suspend > partition and... I'm not sure where Slashdot got that information, but > it makes sense (to me at least). Check -mobile for an ongoing thread about the *21 series Thinkpad. The partition type is the best theory for now, but the jury is still out until people with Thinkpads get a bit more testing done. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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