My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Barney Wolff
barney at databus.com
Thu Dec 2 18:03:57 PST 2004
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> However, if the bios sees partition type 165 (FreeBSD), it freaks out
> and completely shuts down all USB support. Even for the bios keyboard
> service calls.
>
> If you boot MSDOS, for example.. the bios keyboard service calls are not
> disabled and keep working.
Pardon a naive question, but what would happen with a FreeBSD partition
whose type said something other than 165? What in fbsd checks the
partition type once booting starts?
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