[ltp] A31p BIOS upgrade and win2k

Andrew McMillan linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
08 Jul 2002 09:56:19 +1200


On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 08:12, David Grindrod wrote:
> I have tried all the BIOS images I could find on the IBM website. They 
> are all later than the  version originally installed and nothing seems 
> to make it boot. The only thing to add is that trying to fix the problem 
> I have the following output from fdisk /dev/hda. Seems that the 
> partitions are hidden now. They were not originally. Anyway to make them 
> unhidden from Linux? Would changing the partition system  id within 
> fdisk work without loosing data?

What is on the 'hidden' partitions?  I imagine that at least one of them
should be unhidden, and one of them should be marked as 'bootable'.

Cheers,
					Andrew.
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