From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 17 3: 9: 4 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF0337B400; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:08:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.145]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA25370; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:08:30 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A65780D.EF474B10@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:46:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Nik Clayton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml References: <67787.979715759@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message