[ltp] TP 760 ED BIOS issues?

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:50:58 -0400
"Max T. Woodbury" <max.teneyck.woodbury@verizon.net> wrote:

> Some time ago I purchased a second hand 760 ED to use as a
> navigation system.  It ran/runs Win98 and does OK.
> 
> I recently purchased another disk drive for the machine and
> am in the process of installing Linux (Fedora core 1) on it.
> The process has not gone smoothly.  After more than a little
> work, I think I've identified the problems as BIOS setting
> problems.  I believe resetting the values in the BIOS/cmos
> might make things easier, but I don't know how.  The EZ
> setup screen does not provide access to the parameters I think
> need to be changed and the settings from '98 don't seem to
> carry over.

You might want to download PS2.EXE for DOS from IBM's web site.  Settings
made with the DOS version should carry over to a Linux boot.  I had a
760XD a long time ago, and I seem to remember having to use PS2.EXE to do
BIOS setup.  I'd give a more specific pointer, but I'm repsonding to this
message offline...

About the PCMCIA problem - I don't remember having to do this way back
then, but I had a similar PCMCIA problem on my Thinkpad 240 and had to add
"pci=assign-bussses" to the boot parameters fot the kernel to get it to
work.  Not sure if that's yout problem, but the symptoms you posted
sounded familiar.

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