[GLLUG] Thinkpad BIOS II

[Karl Schuttler]

Chick, the next time you go to Penguincon you should enter in the junk
wars. While everyone else is struggling with old components, it will
be like any other day of the week for you.

Kudos on the patience to update the bios clock on every boot, instead
of replacing the watch battery :D How do you sync it at night when
your sundial isn't functional?

I imagine the Ghetto Hackers would accept you into their group without
any hesitation!

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a great idea, Stan.  Thanks.
>
> I tried it, and it did let me configure the BIOS, so at least I know the
> code doesn't reside on the hard disk.
>
> Maybe it is as Clay suggested, that the 10GB hard drive I tried can't be
> handled by the BIOS, or maybe, as J. Neveau suggested, it's a problem with
> the master/slave jumper setting.  Thanks for those suggestions, too.
>
> I can update the BIOS (by many version numbers and almost four years), but,
> since the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, I'll have to install Win95 or
> Win98 first to run the update program, and then install the Linux I want or
> try the larger drive again to see if the new BIOS can recognize it.
>
>
>                               Chick
>
>
> On 03/07/2012 10:31 PM, Stan Mortel wrote:
>>
>> On 3/7/2012 10:24 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>>>
>>> I forgot my second question. Could the FreeBSD on the replacement hard
>>> drive be interfering somehow with the BIOS configuration? I don't see
>>> how, but I can't think of anything else to explain it that I haven't
>>> already asked.
>>
>> Chick,
>>
>> Take the hard drive out and boot into the BIOS and see what happens.
>>
>> Stan
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