[ltp] R40 - not able to access bios (using "Access IBM" button)

[Brendon Baumgartner]

> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org [mailto:linux-thinkpad-
> admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Georg Sauthoff
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:50 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] R40 - not able to access bios (using "Access IBM"
> button)
> 
> On Thursday 15 January 2004 17:41, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > BTW can you please tell me how did you convinced IBM to give you the
> > recovery CDs ? :)
> > I am from Greece and recently i have bought an R40. Unfortunately i have
> > destroyed the PITA predesktop area. I said to them that the fault is
> > theirs because they dont say anywhere in the manual anything about Linux
> > and problem with the format of the hdd...
> 
> that is strange. Because you have to disable a security option in the
> bios,
> which "protects" the HPA (hidden protected area) from read/write request
> from
> Linux or another OS.

No, only some Linux distros (I think via the kernel) honor the HPA. I was
able to boot my t40p with Knoppix, and it ignored the HPA settings in the
bios. On the other hand, once I had Debian installed, it honored the bios
configuration.

-- 
 BB