Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 04:48:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <3D03409F.52E5D3FE@mindspring.com> References: <20020609092649.A392@hpdi.ath.cx>
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Hiten Pandya wrote: > > You didn't say what the box was. If you enabled power management, > > the BSD partition may be being used by the box as the "sleep" > > partition (old IBM Thinkpad BIOS identified the first non-DOS > > partition as the sleep partition, for example). So turning on APM > > may have caused the problems (also unlikely: generally, such an > > occurance would render the FreeBSD partition unbootably corrupt). > > Hmm. Shouldn't this kind of info be put in the FreeBSD-FAQ and the > bit about old IBM Thinkpad laptops in the laptop article as a > pre-caution? > > Just an FYI. Not really. It's well known, and in all the mailing list archives for all of the Open Source OS's, if you search for "Thinkpad". IBM made a BIOS change for Linux, and then they made a general BIOS change that worked for everyone. I think this comes under the heading of "Make sure you are running the most recent BIOS for your system". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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