[ltp] A31p BIOS upgrade and win2k

[Norman Levin]

    If you can boot to linux, do so.  I found after installing Suse8
on my system (also has win2k and redhat 7.2) that the primary
partition magically moved to /dev/hda3 instead of hda1.  A fix
of lilo.conf helped that problem.
norm
ps - have NO idea how a primary could move from hda1 to hda3...

David Grindrod wrote:
>>   I have recently upgraded my BIOS on my A31p to the latest version
>> (1.02 - 1GET30WW) following suggestions by IBM. After upgrading by
>> downloading and running (as the IBM Update program did not work)
>> everything seemed fine until I booted into Windows 2000 after booting
>> into Linux. Windows would not boot no matter what I did and comes
>> back with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE in the  blue screen of death. I
>> have performed all the obvious things (booting from repair console
>> and installing mbr etc.) to fix things but always get the same
>> error. Linux runs fine  and luckily I can boot into this and try and
>> fix the problem. 
>> 
>> Although this is not directly relevant to Linux other users should
>> bear this in mind when considering upgrading the BIOS. It may be
>> just my machine but I think this is more fundamental problem.  If
>> anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this without reformatting
>> and re-installing I would appreciate it. Unfortunately I cannot ring
>> IBM and ask them as they told me last week that since it is a dual
>> boot machine then I have no software warranty (this was in the UK).
>> I have paid for 3 year onsite warranty world wide but apparently
>> this is only for hardware. I was told that as soon as I put another
>> operating system on the box then they will not help with any
>> software issues! Typical as the only thing that seems to work on my
>> box at the moment is the other invalid operating system. I though
>> IBM was supposed to support Linux! The only improvement of IBM over
>> Dell is that IBM will not invalid your hardware warranty if you put
>> Linux on their Laptops. With Dell all your warranty is lost. 
>> 
>> I have done a search of the web and this error seems to means that
>> windows 2000 driver cannot read the  controller anymore. Suggestions
>> on a fix are very welcome.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> PS I have somehow lost my boot set-up for my recovery partition (can
>> someone send me a copy of the boot set-up  for the booting the IBM
>> Recovery tools (i.e. boot.ini) I would appreciate it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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