[ltp] upgrade of bios on a TP600e...

geezzer linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:23:29 +0000


Hi Wayne

Can't do that, I can't get to a prompt to login & issue 'lilo -v'.

Am I stuffed ...?

Andrei :)


Wayne Scott wrote:

> From: geezzer <andrei@easynet.co.uk>
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > My HD is 10Gb I can't exactly tell what is the geometry of the drive is but it only
> >
> > happened after applying the bios upgrade...
>
> Just use any values for the geometry.  It does really matter.  Linux
> doesn't use the numbers.  The IDE driver just refuses to load if the
> numbers don't make sense.
>
> But you can't run lilo again until you get the right numbers....
>
> -Wayne

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