[ltp] TkPad600E BIOS INET26WW (99/11/19) incompatible with Linux

[William van Zwanenberg]

At 11:36 AM 2/7/00 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Has anyone upgraded Thinkpad 600E BIOS (or "System Software" as IBM calls it)
>to INET26WW (99/11/19), then Linux cannot recognize the drive (and hence
>looses it root filesystem) with the msgs at LILO:
>	PIIX4: not 100% native mode
>		will probe irqs later
>	hda:	no response
>	hda:	non-ide drive
>
>I am sure the problem is with the BIOS because it occured right after
>the upgrade.  And I have tried at least 2 newly partitioned drives.
>
>I tried RedHat 6.0, 6.1 & Slackware 7.0
>
>The IBM support replied me that BIOS is not downgradable and the version
>is already the latest.
>
>Would anybody kindly advise me if there is any workaround?
>
>Thanks,
>-
>Kelvin Kan.

I personally haven't bothered to upgrade the BIOS on my 600E. From the
sounds of things, I'm glad I haven't.


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