Scott Handy Tells What's Up With IBM and Linux

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Re:Hyprocrites. (Score:1)

by pschmied ( 5648 ) writes: on Monday July 16, 2001 @07:42PM (#82169) Homepage

Well, the problem with the A20 laptop stemmed from the laptop thinking that FreeBSD was a suspend to disk partition.

I had a laptop die on me that I installed FreeBSD (read: the machine wouldn't even go into the bios to set boot device order)

IBM's solution? Buy a new harddrive, because you screwed up the one we shipped you.

My solution? I had to use a laptop mini-ide to IDE adaptor and reformat the harddisk.

Later I found out that a bios update fixed this problem.

All is well now, and FreeBSD works swimingly on the IBM a20.

-Peter

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