Re:Review of a Linux laptop: Thinkpad T400. Do not buy it.
by bkudria on Monday September 28, 2009 @06:54PM
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Can you go into the unholy VZ stuff? I'm looking at the Z series, and that (along with Linux compatibility) is one of my concerns.
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Re:Review of a Linux laptop: Thinkpad T400. Do not buy it.
by tsuraan on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @09:52AM
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I followed the directions at http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/ , and it worked out perfectly. You basically put a modified copy of grub in a certain directory structure on a USB key and reboot your laptop. The laptop's EFI firmware (normally hidden by a BIOS emulator) sees the modified grub and loads it instead of the BIOS. Then you get to poke some flash values, and reboot. It's a little scary, but I haven't heard of anybody breaking their laptops from it. It worked for me.