[ltp] upgrade of bios on a TP600e...
geezzer
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:58:13 +0000
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...
I can access the data on the drive with Explore2fs and get the data I need off.
Can you help please...
Wayne Scott wrote:
> From: geezzer <andrei@easynet.co.uk>
> > Has anyone upgraded their TP600e to this latest bios release & found they
> > can't run their Linux OS?.
>
> You mean the kernel boots and then dies because it can't recognize the IDE
> drive??
>
> I just had that happen the other day, but I thought it was something I did.
>
> I worked around the problem by adding : hda=833,240,63 to the lilo command line
> (For the 6+ gig drive)
>
> -Wayne
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