Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:38:23 +0100 From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: NetBSD-users@NetBSD.org, misc@OpenBSD.org, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Problems running NetBSD or OpenBSD on newer IBM laptops? Message-ID: <20001129233823.A4620@vaasje.org> In-Reply-To: <20001130090555.A53001@echunga.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:05:55AM %2B1030 References: <20001130090555.A53001@echunga.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:05:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > In the last couple of days we've been having a discussion in the > FreeBSD mobile list about a bug in newer IBM laptops. See > http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html for more details. > Basically, it seems that the IBM BIOS uses partition type 165 for its > own purposes, and goes crazy if it doesn't find what it wants in it: If type 165 is the problem, then NetBSD will certainly not have that problem, since it uses 169 these days. - Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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