[LinuxBIOS] linuxBIOS on a Thinkpad 570e

[Vernon Mauery]

with google I found an old page that has since been removed from the linuxbios
website that had the beginnings of a story about putting linuxbios on a 
thinkpad
T22.  I guess the story never got finished?

I have a thinkpad 570e with the latest bios from IBM (1999) and wanted to
replace its hard drive with a compact flash card.  So I found a CF->IDE
converter, bought a CF card and tried to boot it.  But the bios doesn't
recognize the CF card as an IDE device.  A newer thinkpad T40 does find the 
card
and boot from it just fine.  So I know the card works as a disk.  But the BIOS
on the 570e is too old and stupid to find it.  So currently, I am using 
isolinux
to boot from a CD, load the kernel/initrd and then mount the CF card as /.

So I am coming to this list in hopes that I can find a way to update my bios 
so
that it will recognize the CF card as a bootable device.



--Vernon
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