From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 14 17:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F03437B417; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 87A3A786E1; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:26:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:26:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Pratibha , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 BIOS 1.16-IYET56WW Message-ID: <20011115122614.W33267@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011109114904.58079.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> <20011115094256.A33267@monorchid.lemis.com> <200111142322.fAENMXQ58994@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111142322.fAENMXQ58994@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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