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From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:36:32PM +1100, Greg Lehey scribbled:
| On Tuesday,  6 February 2001 at  8:15:26 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > 4. IBM X20 and A20
| 
| Note that some BIOS revisions on these models don't work AT ALL with
| FreeBSD.  In fact, the mere presence of a FreeBSD partition causes
| them to go catatonic.

Newer reports on -mobile say that IBM secretly fixed the problems
in newer versions of X20 and A20 BIOS'es
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