On Sat, Jun 16, Robert Lewis wrote:
I was out having lunch with a computer consultant friend and he said that MS twisted the arms of manufactures to put a bit in their bios so that only VISTA would be recognized. He said on the net you can find patches where you d/l the current bios apply the patch which manipulates 1-bit in the bios that then allows it to recognize and deal with Linux installation. I have no further detail and leave it as an exercise for you to do more sniffing.
Moral to the story for me is that I will not purchase a name brand computer but instead build one from scratch. Or possibly make the dealer give me a written guarantee of a 100% refund if I can't load Linux.
Yes, I'm going to go that route, probably with avadirect, who seem to be fairly linux-friendly. Thanks to all who replied with their excellent advice. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael@visv.net Recompile and be happy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org