From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 28 15:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from web3206.mail.yahoo.com (web3206.mail.yahoo.com [204.71.202.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B8E837B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000928225454.1871.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [204.160.183.10] by web3206.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:54:54 PDT Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:54:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Nguyen Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a fairly recent T20, that boots FreeBSD fine. I don't think I have suspend to disk enabled in the BIOS or anything like tho (haven't ever really looked in the BIOS). Mike. --- Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > [bcc: to -mobile and -chat] > > 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). IBM tech > support had the following to say about this (after a longish struggle > to make them admit the problem existed): __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message