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about the "IBM BIOS fails to boot FreeBSD partitions" bug.
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<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>
<year>1995</year>
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</tgroup>
</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
workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different

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<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>
<year>1995</year>
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</tgroup>
</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
workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different