From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 28 10:10: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-187.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEA937B404; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:09:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eASIHSF25817; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011281817.eASIHSF25817@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: /dev/null@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:57:28 GMT." <200011281757.KAA09532@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:17:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This was crossposted to too many lists, reply-to set to a useful subset. > FWIW, the "recovery procedure" they allude to is to use their > recovery CDROM, which will basically repartition and reinstall the > default software that came with the machine. I'll guess that they > don't recommend specific recovery instructions (and refer only to > "various utilities") as a hold harmless measure, since the > recovery CD will effectively blow away any user data on the drive, > and they don't want to be held responsible for that. Actually, the "recovery procedure" involves removing the harddisk, since the BIOS code in question that fails does so before the boot process starts, and with a FreeBSD partition on the disk, you never get to boot at all. This has been discussed on -mobile already, and any interested party is encouraged to consult the archives. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message