From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 07:20:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C26516A4D5; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FB043D39; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:20:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1Bsz1q-000AM9-52; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:20:38 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:20:38 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: <20040806072054.57FB043D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: IBM ThinkPad X40, kudos to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:20:54 -0000 sorry for the cross posting, but please read on. This notebook was running Windows XP till one day decided to crash and since then the feared blue screen of death started to appear, all the king horses and all the kings men couldn't put this little note book back in working condition. I made it boot diskless, took about 2 minutes, booted current, mounted the ntfs partition, recovered all important files, and is now running current - with some minor problems - but no crash yet. So bsdtar crashes, reboot hangs, but hey, the system recovers, and no panics! and this is current! even X11 is working. thanks for a great job! danny -- Daniel Braniss e-mail: danny@cs.huji.ac.il Manager of Computing Facilities phone: +972 2 658 4385 School of Computer Science and Engineering Fax: +972 2 561 7723 The Hebrew University Jerusalem Edmond Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Israel