Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:54:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Nguyen <foolio_666@yahoo.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops Message-ID: <20000928225454.1871.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com>
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I have a fairly recent T20, that boots FreeBSD fine. I don't think I have suspend to disk enabled in the BIOS or anything like tho (haven't ever really looked in the BIOS). Mike. --- Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: > [bcc: to -mobile and -chat] > > The BIOS on newer IBM laptops freezes solid when it finds a FreeBSD > partition (what we call a slice) on the harddisk (apparently because > it thinks it's a suspend partition and tries to read it). IBM tech > support had the following to say about this (after a longish struggle > to make them admit the problem existed): __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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