Re: IBM ThinkPad T20

Good call and thank you. After playing with my burning software I was
able to get it to update from a cd. I appreciate the help.

Chris


On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:25:20 -0400
Gary Corcoran <[email protected]> wrote:

> chris wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:12:14 -0400
> > Gary Corcoran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>chris wrote:
> >>
> >>>I recently came across an older Thinkpad T20. Unfortunatly I wasnt
> >>>aware of the bios problem untill after a fresh install of
> >>>5.4-release took place and I rebooted. My question is, I have an
> >>>older ThinkPad 570 that does not have a CD or floppy drive or
> >>>working usb port. I can take the HDD out of the T20 and put it in
> >>>the 570 and it works fine. The problem is that due to the lack of
> >>>secondary boot device I cant wipe the disk. Does anyone have any
> >>>suggestions on a way to get around this? If all else fails I can
> >>>toss the HDD in my girlfrieds laptop sometime this week or
> >>>purchase an adaptor to attach the HDD to my workstation. Either
> >>>way any input at all would be appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Chris
> >>>
> >>>Reference of the Bios issue - 
> >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD
> >>
> >>Why don't you just update the BIOS, and make the problem disappear?
> >>
> >>Gary
> > 
> > 
> > The box wont boot with the drive in. From what Ive gathered it wont
> > let me flash the bios without the drive in.
> 
> Right - it won't boot with the drive in, but if you disconnect
> it, you can boot to the BIOS, right?  You should be able to update
> the BIOS with the HD disconnected.  You need to take the
> bootable floppy with the BIOS update and turn it into a bootable
> CD.  This involves using the "make a bootable CD" option, and
> pointing the program (e.g. Roxio Easy CD Creator) to the floppy
> to copy the boot program as well as the files.  You can't simply
> burn the files to a data CD and have it work - it must be bootable.
> Sorry I don't have any more explicit instructions - you'll have to
> figure that out or ask someone else.
> 
> Gary
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