Lenovo, I Take It Back
Those nice people at Lenovo have listened to the complaints about the lack of support for the virtualisation hardware, and released a new BIOS version. Thanks Lenovo, my only complaint about the X60 is now fixed.
Posted by Steven Garrity at Tue Jan 23 17:46:05 2007:
Posted by Ross at Tue Jan 23 17:54:29 2007:
Posted by hub (ummm, honest) at Tue Jan 23 19:06:06 2007:
Posted by BillBasher at Tue Jan 23 21:05:35 2007:
your only complaint?
windows key???? crappy atheros wlan chipsatz? ati drivers? and finally the keyboard seems to be of lower quality then it was with the ibm thinkpads..
Posted by Ross at Tue Jan 23 21:29:58 2007:
windows key???? crappy atheros wlan chipsatz? ati drivers? and finally the keyboard seems to be of lower quality then it was with the ibm thinkpads..
The X60 I have has an Intel ipw3945 wifi chipset, a Intel 945GM graphics card, and they keyboard is as almost good as my X22, and better than my T40p.
And I like the Windows key as it means I have a key to find that nothing else can steal any more.
As I said, no complaints.
Posted by GuilhermeSalgado at Tue Jan 23 23:15:30 2007:
And I like the Windows key as it means I have a key to find that nothing else can steal any more.
As I said, no complaints.
My only complaint (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7060) seems to require a BIOS upgrade too, but it doesn't seem to be included in this new version. Maybe you can tell me what you have to do for them to listen to your complaints? :)
Seriously, now; do they have any place where I can complain?
Cheers
Posted by iain at Tue Jan 23 23:22:09 2007:
Posted by Kjell Myksvoll at Wed Jan 24 00:02:55 2007:
Seriously, now; do they have any place where I can complain?
Cheers
It might have been answered before somewhere but do you know whether an USB CD-player can be used for the upgrade, or is it absolutely required that a Thinkpad Ultrabay unit must be used? (I have neither win* on my x60s or an Ultrabay unit...)
regards
Posted by Ross at Wed Jan 24 09:36:07 2007:
Posted by James Henstridge at Thu Jan 25 05:03:00 2007:
regards
Kjell: the BIOS upgrade CD image will not work off a USB CD drive -- it boots to DOS and tries to load an ATAPI CD driver instead (which works with the drive in the dock).
I've managed to upgrade the BIOS in the past by formatting a USB key to boot DOS (there is a Windows utility somewhere on HP's website that can do this), and copy the contents of the BIOS upgrade CD to the USB key (doesn't have to be in the root of the USB key).
Next, boot the USB key, run the lcreflash.bat program and wait.
It worked on my X60s to upgrade to 2.05 (haven't tried with the new BIOS yet), but it isn't a supported method of upgrade so do it at your own risk...
Posted by Dafydd Harries at Thu Jan 25 13:32:42 2007:
I've managed to upgrade the BIOS in the past by formatting a USB key to boot DOS (there is a Windows utility somewhere on HP's website that can do this), and copy the contents of the BIOS upgrade CD to the USB key (doesn't have to be in the root of the USB key).
Next, boot the USB key, run the lcreflash.bat program and wait.
It worked on my X60s to upgrade to 2.05 (haven't tried with the new BIOS yet), but it isn't a supported method of upgrade so do it at your own risk...
James' suggestion worked for me. I found the HP tool mentioned at:
h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
(It seems this page moves around; if it doesn't exist, try Googling for "site:hp.com SP27213.exe" or "site:hp.com DiskOnKey".)
However, when I ran the tool it claimed not to have any DOS files it could use, so I extracted a DOS image from bootdisk.com and used the command.com/io.sys/msdos.sys from that.
It might be possible to avoid needing Windows entirely by making a syslinux image that chainloads DOS.
h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
(It seems this page moves around; if it doesn't exist, try Googling for "site:hp.com SP27213.exe" or "site:hp.com DiskOnKey".)
However, when I ran the tool it claimed not to have any DOS files it could use, so I extracted a DOS image from bootdisk.com and used the command.com/io.sys/msdos.sys from that.
It might be possible to avoid needing Windows entirely by making a syslinux image that chainloads DOS.
