7.0-snap available
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
Wed Nov 9 14:15:40 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:43 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote:
> > > >I even suspect the same would happen on i386.
> > >
> > > No, it isn't.
> >
> > OK, I'm happy to stand corrected.
> >
> > > probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open
> > > still. Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?
> >
> > More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count
> > being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has
> > support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled.
> >
> > So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :)
>
> Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up. I guess I'd need
> to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc. Having the built-in
> keyboard work would be an added incentive. :) It sure gets better battery
> life than my current freebsd luggable. (45 minutes without wireless if I'm
> lucky, more like 15 with wireless)
I'd be interested if you find a way to shrink your Tiger
partition. I've been pondering reinstalling Tiger for weeks but
if I could find something else, that could save me from
(useless) backups.
Anyway, I thought that latest Powerbook's keyboards were
supported (as I advertised in platforms/ppc.html :))
--
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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