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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:47:08 +0800
From: Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw>
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Subject: IBM X20 experience
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    My IBM X20 was acquired early this year. The bios version was 1.20.
    This version hibernate to DOS partition, therefore it works great
    with FreeBSD, no tweaking required.

    The disk come with a non-dos partition I think was intended for
    hibernation, but I delete it because I don't need it.

    Last month I heard that IBM released a new version of bios. I
    went to ibm.com and get the version 2.12. Followed the instruction
    for the upgrade. It turn out that this version hibernate to a
    particular partition. I almost panic at that moment. I then removed
    the disk, boot from floppy, downgrade the bios to 1.20. And everything
    back to normal.

    There is an intermediate version 2.07 available on the web, but I
    am not sure about the hibernation behavior of this version.

    For X20 owners: If you want to install FreeBSD, stick with 1.20. 

-- 
Chen-Hsiung Chan [¸âÂíºµ](BIG5)
Department of Life Science      http://waru.life.nthu.edu.tw/~frankch/
National Tsing Hua University   email: frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw
Taiwan                          phone: 03-5715131#3482 fax: 03-5715934

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