Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:54:10 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000928165200.04688b90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzp7l7we12y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 02:03 PM 9/28/2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >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). Of course, they wouldn't dare do this to Linux; only BSD. For those in the US, the number is 800-772-2227 and then press "2" twice. Ask for the technical support "team leader." The person to whom I spoke was completely clueless. He had not heard of FreeBSD or any of the BSDs for that matter. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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