From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 28 15:54:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DCF37B42C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26554; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:54:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000928165200.04688b90@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:54:10 -0600 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:03 PM 9/28/2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >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). Of course, they wouldn't dare do this to Linux; only BSD. For those in the US, the number is 800-772-2227 and then press "2" twice. Ask for the technical support "team leader." The person to whom I spoke was completely clueless. He had not heard of FreeBSD or any of the BSDs for that matter. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message