[ltp] I'm concerned about my BIOS...any knowledge out there?

[Alex Deucher]

On Jan 4, 2008 6:50 PM, Dreamwander <dreamwander@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I have to say i appreciate this community (or what i know of it via
> thinkwiki.org)
>
> I have a question about something that worries me:
>
> I am the proud third owner of a T40p.  I assume the first owner was a
> Windows user, but i don't actually know.  The second owner is a friend of
> mine who ran Windows for a while, then set it up dual-boot with Debian.  I
> got the machine from him and have replaced the hard drive with a Toshiba and
> have been running Ubuntu.  First 7.04, now 7.10.
>
> It runs great, except for two things, one of which i'll write another email
> about.  This email is about the fact that, all of a sudden, for a month or
> two now, the machine hangs at boot on the IBM Thinkpad bios splash screen.
> When i press the "Access IBM" button, then Esc to "resume normal boot", it
> loads Grub, grub goes through and boots either of the kernels i have going,
> and all's well.
>
> Does anyone have any clue why this is happening?  If it is a harbinger of
> doom to come?  If there is a way to fix this?
>
> Any advice, help, or info is appreciated.
>
> Also, it'll boot from CD fine, but i still have to interrupt and tell it to
> continue.

do you have a docking station or a USB storage device (or printer with
USB card reader built in) attached?  those can cause boot problems or
slower boots.

Alex