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Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:07:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.1-BETA2 FAILURE on IBM A30p Thinkpad
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Jesse,

IBM just released (As of 5/20/2003) a new version (1EET70WW (1.16)) of
your laptop's BIOS. Could you update it and see if it helps any?

Non-Diskette version:
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39863

Diskette version:
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39861

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:

> "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> wrote in message
> news:bajgh4$aqa$1@main.gmane.org...
> > Greetings list,
> >
> > So far I have tried both 5.1-BETA and 5.1-BETA2 on my IBM A30p Thinkpad.
> > Both have failed. I'm currently downloading 5.0-current to see if this
> > is a 5.x thing or just a BETA thing.
>
> Well, this is pretty elusive. I just spent an hour or two systematically
> disabling everything in my BIOS that I could disable, and disabling every
> hint at the boot prompt that I could disable.
>
> Still panics at the same spot. I'm going to try disabling some modules next.
>
> It's a shame that this problem doesn't occur as predictably when I boot with
> boot -Dh or boot -h. Otherwise I'd be able to provide the list with trace
> output.
>
> Oh well. I guess I could attempt an install while using boot -h and trace
> when it finally dies...