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about the "IBM BIOS fails to boot FreeBSD partitions" bug.
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor> <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.186 2001/04/26 01:48:18 dd Exp $</pubdate> <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright> <copyright>
<year>1995</year> <year>1995</year>
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</tgroup> </tgroup>
</informaltable> </informaltable>
<para>It has been reported that later IBM BIOS revisions may have
reintroduced the bug. <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=200565+208320+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010429.freebsd-mobile">This message</ulink>
from Jacques Vidrine to the <email>mobile@freebsd.org</email>
mailing list describes a procedure which may work if your newer
IBM laptop does not boot FreeBSD properly, and you can upgrade or
downgrade the BIOS..</para>
<para>If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a <para>If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a
workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different

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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor> <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.186 2001/04/26 01:48:18 dd Exp $</pubdate> <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright> <copyright>
<year>1995</year> <year>1995</year>
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</tgroup> </tgroup>
</informaltable> </informaltable>
<para>It has been reported that later IBM BIOS revisions may have
reintroduced the bug. <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=200565+208320+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010429.freebsd-mobile">This message</ulink>
from Jacques Vidrine to the <email>mobile@freebsd.org</email>
mailing list describes a procedure which may work if your newer
IBM laptop does not boot FreeBSD properly, and you can upgrade or
downgrade the BIOS..</para>
<para>If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a <para>If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a
workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different