Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:36:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <200012010136.eB11afF01400@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:16:52 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301715220.69587-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>
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> There was some discussion being kicked around by reliable sources
> recently that the actual problem is that the BIOS decides to blat the
> first partition whose type it does not recognize, rather than picking on
> 165 specifically. This is only slightly less stupid, but probably easier
> to fix.
I'm in the process of digging a contact out in IBM's Thinkpad division (I
have some reasonable leads right now) and have been doing a fair amount
of testing on the systems available to me in support of this.
Hopefully I'll have some better information, and ideally some results
fairly soon. Until then, and unless we see some BIOS disassembly going
on, I'd be inclined to defer any further speculation.
I'll get back to the list when I know more.
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
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people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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