Noble (24.04) Beta - are bug reports still possible?

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 19:59, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I have an old BIOS - 2.0.2 and so updating the BIOS is a real possibility.

I've done it on all of my old Thinkpads and on some of them it got
OSes working that wouldn't install. Definitely worth a shot IMHO.

> The T500's battery is dead.

Pray to Linus Torvalds and His apostles Alan Cox, Ted T'so and Greg
Kroah-Hartman that don't have a power cut, then. ;-)

>
> From https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html I downloaded
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 39170048 Apr 17 19:39 6fuj46uc.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian    41125 Apr 17 19:38 6fuj46uc.txt
>
> I am in a position to attempt to write a CD-R.

Good stuff. A DVD-R should work too but is an even more egregious
waste of space.

> Failing that, though, would running it from a VENTOY stick be a bad idea?

I tried that. It wouldn't boot and I am not sure it'd work if it did.

>From the time I did this on a W520, IBM custom-hacked a copy of PC-DOS
to run the BIOS flashing tool directly instead of COMMAND.COM or
something. I suppose that's the sort of thing you can do when you own
the source code to a tiny OS.

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