Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:22:33 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Pratibha <ibpratibha@yahoo.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad T20 BIOS 1.16-IYET56WW Message-ID: <200111142322.fAENMXQ58994@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20011115094256.A33267@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011109114904.58079.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> <20011115094256.A33267@monorchid.lemis.com>
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--==_Exmh_-333889888P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 9 November 2001 at 3:49:03 -0800, Pratibha wrote: > > I don't want to "just try it out and see what happens", because in > > my present circumstances [travelling, away from home base], it would > > be very hard to recover from a disaster (nonbootable condition) on > > my laptop. > > Understood. But I can't really see any alternative. Note that I've > had a report that the machine isn't completely unbootable, it just > takes about 18 hours to get out of the brick-like condition. After > that it works normally. 18 hours? Whoever that was, they sure had a lot more patience than I ever did. :-) OK, as one of the people who's had this happen to him...you (Pratibha) can recover from this condition a lot faster than that, if you're not too squeamish to remove the hard disk, power the machine on, and re-insert it (with the power on). Do at your own risk, obviously. There's a bunch of email in the mailing list archives about this, from me and other people. I only did this at my "home base", not "in the field"...I probably would have been a little reluctant to try this far from home. Once again, do at your own risk. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-333889888P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE78vy52MoxcVugUsMRAvVPAKC1vhno3wfg/rq/niqrdnTJWZoVqwCghluM kMefWrJp4DEjW9GhXQM2tLQ= =oHQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-333889888P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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