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3 Responses to “Thanks to Lenovo”

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   John Nicholson:
   May 2nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm

   David,
   It was nice meeting you this afternoon. I also have my own T60 and use an X60 Tablet at work. I am curious to know why you needed a bootable CD image for BIOS update, unless you are talking about the whole recovery image of the preinstall and service partition. A common method for doing automated BIOS flashes is to use the tool called ThinkVantage System Update off the Lenovo support web site. System Update does a comparison of what version of firmware, drivers, and Lenovo software one has on their system, compares to an XML manifest that has been downloaded, advises on critical, recommended and optional software updates, and then does the updating for you. Anyway, if you have any questions about your T60 or ThinkPads, in general, let me know.

   John

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   drasch:
   May 2nd, 2007 at 8:53 pm

   John,

   It was great to meet you today. The main challenge that made the bootable CD a fortuitous find was that I only run Linux, which I installed myself. As a result, I’ve got no IBM tools on it at this point. It’s quite possible this toolchain is now available for Linux unbeknownst to me. In any case, I was quite happy to find an OS/Configuration agnostic way to update the BIOS which is atypical

   -David

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   John Nicholson:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm

   David,

   Now I understand! I will check on where things stand with Linux support and let you know. I am running Linux on an old IBM PC at home to share files with daughters in MA, TN, and NC.

   John

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