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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:46:37 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <3A65780D.EF474B10@newsguy.com>
References:  <67787.979715759@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:04:28 PST, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
> >   Log:
> >   Add a question explaining how to get FreeBSD working on one of those
> >   newfangled IBM Thinkpads with a broken BIOS.  A joint effort between
> >   myself and Bruce (bmah).
> 
> Owch!  Has anyone reported this to IBM?

Sheldon, how could you possibly have missed the tons of discussions
about this problem for, at least, the past six months?

There is a specific problem report notice on the IBM site, stating they
don't support FreeBSD (translation: you are screwed, and we are not
going to do anything about it).

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net

		"There is no spoon." -- Kiki




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