From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 28 21:44: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D1E37B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAT5pJF28047; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011290551.eAT5pJF28047@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" , jamin@eecs.umich.edu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:49:11 +1030." <20001129154911.B47200@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:51:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message