Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:26:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Pratibha <ibpratibha@yahoo.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 BIOS 1.16-IYET56WW Message-ID: <20011115122614.W33267@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200111142322.fAENMXQ58994@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> References: <20011109114904.58079.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> <20011115094256.A33267@monorchid.lemis.com> <200111142322.fAENMXQ58994@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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On Wednesday, 14 November 2001 at 15:22:33 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 9 November 2001 at 3:49:03 -0800, Pratibha wrote: > >>> I don't want to "just try it out and see what happens", because in >>> my present circumstances [travelling, away from home base], it would >>> be very hard to recover from a disaster (nonbootable condition) on >>> my laptop. >> >> Understood. But I can't really see any alternative. Note that I've >> had a report that the machine isn't completely unbootable, it just >> takes about 18 hours to get out of the brick-like condition. After >> that it works normally. > > 18 hours? Whoever that was, they sure had a lot more patience than I > ever did. :-) I think he just walked away in disgust and forgot to turn it off :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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