On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:20 AM, ag@gmail <amarendra.godb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:53 AM, sven falempin <sven.falem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net > >wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:49:44AM -0500, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >>> just install another 'os' like ubuntu-desktop on your laptop first. > >>> openbsd will install on it flawlessly after that, it did on mine. > >>> and yes, there was no need to change any options anywhere. > >> > >> On my daughter's brand spanking new Lenovo Ideapad $something Touch, we > >> needed to set the BIOS to 'legacy mode' in order to have it boot into > the > >> Ubuntu installer and then choose some obscure linux kernel parameter for > >> it to switch to a usable graphics mode for the installer to complete. > >> > >> For some reason she wanted her laptop on Ubuntu and to use it herself > from > >> that point on. > >> > >> - P > >> > >> -- > >> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > >> http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > >> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > >> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > > > > Why you people are talking about your Lenovo experience ? are you > salesman ? > > > > *facepalm* > > > > [...] > > Oh damn right - you see Peter is Lenovo's Taiwan head, Mayuresh manages > their APAC sales and I handle North America sales! ROFL. > I knew it :D > > For your laptop, did you probe BIOS options as Peter suggested? The answer > is a simple yes or no *hint* > Yes i spend a lot of times in the settings disabling the secure boot and trying to boot various OSes changing the settings, even with ESXi (the best result i got was with this one). because you are all asking for trivia: This is a ASUS N76V But i do not want to go back to legacy BIOS, the laptop got a supported restoration working with it, i do not want to break it. I found some kind of uefi code a long time ago and lost the reference , i was hopping someone knows about some kind of firmware that would emulate the BIOS work. The goal is to boot over usb, i had linux/windows/openbsd and more 10 years ago on a computer i do not want to have this madness again. > -ag > > -- > sent via 100% recycled electrons from my mobile command center. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
