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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
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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

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