I've heard that some new laptops come with some weird software BIOS that resides in the Windows rescue partition, hence you needing it to update the BIOS and deleting it might indeed screw up the laptop. This is just hearsay, i have no evidence.
As far as Acer laptops go, the few i've used don't really appeal to me; plus techsupport here is crappy and if i need the laptop fixed it'll have to go abroad (from Portugal to Spain). I'd prefer Toshiba laptops, i've seen at least one running Ubuntu (+compiz) with no issues. Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
