Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:51:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com>, jamin@eecs.umich.edu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:49:11 %2B1030." <20001129154911.B47200@echunga.lemis.com>
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> > No. Some fool at IBM (or whomever they contracted the BIOS development
> > out to) decided to use partition ID 165 for the suspend-to-disk
> > partition, and the IBM BIOS gets very, very upset when it finds what it
> > thinks is an enormous suspend-to-disk partition on the disk.
>
> Are you sure of this? I know the idea had been bandied around, but so
> had some others. If we go to IBM with claims like this, and they turn
> out to be incorrect, we'll be shooting ourselves in the foot.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention.
One of the stories going around inside IBM about why there is a problem
with these laptops and FreeBSD claims that "FreeBSD puts the boot sector
somewhere nonstandard and the BIOS can't find it".
Whose foot was that, again? 8)
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people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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