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

[David Newman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Scott [mailto:wscott@ichips.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:37 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com; kelvin@neuron.hongkong.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: [ltp] TkPad600E BIOS INET26WW (99/11/19) incompatiblewith
> Linux
>
>
> From: kelvin@neuron.hongkong.sgi.com (Kelvin KAN)
> >
> > 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?
>
> Two that I know of.
>
> Use Linux kernel version 2.2.14 or better.
>
> Add hda=C/H/S to the kernel commandline (Usually using LILO)
>
> The new BIOS reports the CHS information from this disk is some
> unusual way.  The new kernel recognizes it is bogus and ignores the
> information.  Or is can provide the correct information directly using
> the kernel command line.
>
> I can't tell you the correct values for your disk.
>
> -Wayne
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