[ltp] S2D breaks S2RAM

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:29:20 +0200


On lun, 2009-04-20 at 18:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Damjan wrote:
> > > If anyone has a good recipe for that which needs only FreeDos, I think
> > > Lenovo would be interested ;-)   I have asked them for PenDrive images a
> > > long time ago, but they don't have the inhouse expertise right now, and
> > > probably they're short on engineers to deal with it.  Besides, their Windows
> > > utility does the job for 95% or more of their customers...
> > 
> > Once that I tried to flash the BIOS on my X60s with FreeDos, the bios
> > flashing utility didn't work.
> 
> Hmm, that's bad.  But we have to assume that whatever they use in the CDs
> work, so if we have something that turns a bootable CD iso into a bootable
> USB stick, that would work just as well, if not better.

To manage to have the flasher working I had to use the FreeDOS kernel
but all bootscripts from the Lenovo ISO. That might be relevant. See my
howto somewhere in the thread.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis