From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 28 13: 3:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BCC37B422; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA69616; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:03:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Sep 2000 22:03:17 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [bcc: to -mobile and -chat] The BIOS on newer IBM laptops freezes solid when it finds a FreeBSD partition (what we call a slice) on the harddisk (apparently because it thinks it's a suspend partition and tries to read it). IBM tech support had the following to say about this (after a longish struggle to make them admit the problem existed): > There may be a future update to the BIOS of this machine > that will allow the machine to recognize the 165 partition > type. I've been told that at a minimum they will at least > allow the machine to be booted up without freezing. I > would setup a profile on the IBM Support website > (http://www.pc.ibm.com/support) to be notified when future > updates are available. > > Thank you for using the IBM Online Assistant. > > Tim Zwick So, everybody out there who has an IBM laptop or is considering acquiring one, let them know this is unacceptable. Email or phone IBM Tech Support (See http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4HWSE3.html for a list of call centers around the world) and complain; and make sure your retailer knows about the problem, and knows that you won't buy an IBM ThinkPad until the problem is solved. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message