[ltp] S2D breaks S2RAM

[Vincent C Jones]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 01:06 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Damjan wrote:
> >> > If anyone has a good recipe for that which needs only FreeDos, I think
> >> > Lenovo would be interested ;-)   I have asked them for PenDrive images a
> >> > long time ago, but they don't have the inhouse expertise right now, and
> >> > probably they're short on engineers to deal with it.  Besides, their Windows
> >> > utility does the job for 95% or more of their customers...
> >> 
> >> Once that I tried to flash the BIOS on my X60s with FreeDos, the bios
> >> flashing utility didn't work.
> >
> >Hmm, that's bad.  But we have to assume that whatever they use in the CDs
> >work, so if we have something that turns a bootable CD iso into a bootable
> >USB stick, that would work just as well, if not better.
> 
> booting the disc from an external usb cd-drive works fine

Unfortunately not universally true. For example, the latest X61 BIOS
upgrade appears to require an IDE CD drive (aka, docking station).

Vincent C Jones