On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 22:44:52 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > 3) You get a system lockup when booting the *computer* if *any* DD disk > is attached anywhere at all. This is what killed the Thinkpad T20*, > A20*, 600X etc. After all the yelling we did at IBM, it turned out > to be FreeBSD's fault. It also happens on Dell systems. It kills > all IA64 boxes if a FreeBSD/i386 disk is attached anywhere.
What are you talking about? The IBM lockup was due to the presence of *Microsoft partition* of type 0xn5, for any value of n. If these systems also lock up with a dedicated disk, it's due to some other bug. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
