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Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote:

> just dont choose an acer 5745  or any laptop runnning Insyde BIOS
> ...from my personal experience (BIOS gets stuck at splash screen after
> BSD install)

It works fine if you don't blow away the BIOS partition.  At least it 
has for me on an Aspire One netbook.  Maybe a notebook also, can't 
recall.