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BIOS Upgrade

2007-02-26T17:13:47Z

Casoe: /* Does work: */

__TOC__

This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.

{{NOTE| In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 ThinkPad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}

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==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. The IBM documentation is sometimes confusing about the order of update. Updating the Control Program first, then the BIOS seems to be the correct order. Make sure to do the updates immediately following each other, otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided. A list of links to firmware downloads can be found at [[BIOS Upgrade Downloads]] for nearly all Thinkpad Models.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable.

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating an X60==
If there is no floppy, and no windows, but an external USB CD, then there is hope.

===Build a bootable CD with USB support===
Get the ISO Image style BIOS upgrade, and the freedos floppy (http://www.ankreuzen.de/freedos/files/fd9sr1/fdos1440.zip)

:{{cmdroot|su # get root}}
:{{cmdroot|mkdir /tmp/iso}}
:{{cmdroot|mkdir /tmp/cdimage}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop <iso-bios-file> /tmp/iso}}
:{{cmdroot|cp /tmp/iso/* /tmp/cdimage}}
:{{cmdroot|cp <freedos-disk-image> /tmp/cdimage/floppy.img}}
:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b floppy.img -o bootcd.iso /tmp/cdimage}}

finished.. now boot from cd and flash.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{600X}} (2645) ||
*Jonathan Byrne <jonathan@RemoveThisToMailMe.yamame.org>. BIOS 1.11 from spsuit55.exe worked perfectly using cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A31p}} (2653) ||
*Matthias Meinke largeeddy@gmx.at, BIOS 1.09 1NET15WW flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1830-RM7) ||
*Will Parker <stardotstar at sourcepoint dot com dot au> successfully flashed 3.20 using existing 3.04 ECP and retained custom boot splash.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R52}} (1858) ||
*Stuart McCord <stuart dot mccord at gmail dot com> flashed both BIOS and ECP using cabextract, BIOS flashed first as on IBM website
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
*Mathias Behrle (with cabextract/CD method, Version 1.07 => 1.12) --[[User:Mathiasb|Mathiasb]] 11:58, 14 December 2006 (CET)
*Bob Skaroff (cabextract/CD), 1.06 => 1.12
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
*Joe Renes: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a on 2006-03-20 via cabextract and CD-boot. Piece of cake.
*Raphael Errani: BIOS 1.20 / EC 1.06a on 2006-11-06 via cabextract and CD-boot (using mkisofs). Worked without errors. 1st Bios, 2nd EC
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T30}} ||
*Martin GÃ¼hring <guehring at gmail.com> BIOS 2.10 via cabextract the Non-Diskette BIOS -> mkisofs '''in the directory the exe was extracted''' to generate the iso -> burn the iso -> boot the CD
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
*Ivanhoe (Bios 3.19)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42}} ||
*Dan (BIOS 3.20 / EC 3.04, cabextract/CD method) <tronic171 at evilphb.org>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Conrad Rentsch <Conrad dot Rentsch at t-online dot de> (Version: Bios 1.29 / Embedded Controller 1.06)
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Florian Boucault <florian at boucault dot ath dot cx> (Model : 1871-W34 & Version: Bios 1.23 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://www.unixwitch.de/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Z60m}} ||
*[[User:Morle|Morle]] 13:09, 20 May 2006 (CEST), (Embedded Controller 1.14 with cabextract/CD method)
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating via Grub and a Floppy Image==

{{WARN|Many have warned '''not''' to use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools may crash in that situation! Proceed at your own risk!}}

Floppy images may be booted from Grub via a utility called [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK], which may be compiled from the [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ '''SYSLINUX source''']. Copy the compiled memdisk image and the floppy image to your boot directory and configure grub as follows:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
title Bios Flash
kernel /boot/memdisk
initrd /boot/FILENAME.img
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

Again, proceed at your own risk. This was tested on an R51 type 2888.

This also worked for me on a T41p type 2373. -- [[User:MrStaticVoid|James Lee]] 20:55, 8 May 2006 (CEST)

And it worked for me on a X31 type 2673-CBU. -- [[User:JanTopinski|Jan Topinski]], 18 September 2006

And it worked for me on two X40 type 2371 -- [[User:Antialize|Jakob Truelsen]], 19 Jan 2007 -- BIOS: 2.07 1uuj21us.exe -- ECP: 1.62 1uhj10us.exe

Not working for me on T43 type 2668-F7G -- [[User:Maus3273|Maus3273]] 20:48, 30 January 2007 (CET) -- BIOS: 1.29 1YUJ18US.IMG -- I got into the bios program, but the machine never restarts after initiating the upgrade.

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Updating via "IBM Predesktop area", suitable for model X (not have CDROM and floppy)==
It's so difficult to update BIOS and ECP without cdrom, floppy disk.
Don't know the reason why I couldn't update BIOS and ECP(1QHJ08US and 1QUJ19US) for my IBM Thinkpad X31.Hmm, may be cause of the dividing partition on my hard disk, that is:
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
Primary: ext3, ext3, ntfs
Extended: Ntsf, fat32
Bootloader: GRUB
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

No problem, you can use this way to do it:
* First, config in BIOS
In Security part:
# Remove all password of Subpervisor and Power on password
# Set Access IBM Predesktop Area to Normal
# Choose Enable "Flash BIOS updating by End User" in BIOS update Option.

In Config part:
# Choose Enable for Network flash over Lan

* Second, download the newest version of BIOS update and ECP update
Running: The program extract all files to the folder. There is a .img file (1QUJ19US.IMG, 1QUJ08US.IMG) in each folder.
Copy the imformation content in that img file and paste it to one FAT partition(using winimage or TotalCmd to extract)

as seen All files in 1QUJ19US.IMG is extracted to D:\BIOS
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
695,764 $018E000.FL1
163 0691.HSH
2,049 0691.PAT
163 0694.HSH
2,049 0694.PAT
163 0695.HSH
2,049 0695.PAT
2,049 06D0.PAT
163 06D1.HSH
2,049 06D1.PAT
163 06D2.HSH
2,049 06D2.PAT
163 06D6.HSH
2,049 06D6.PAT
2,049 06D8.PAT
697 CHKBMP.EXE
8,128 COMMAND.COM
26 CONFIG.SYS
24,860 FLASH2.EXE
26 LCREFLSH.BAT
170 LOGO.BAT
330 LOGO.SCR
111,925 PHLASH16.EXE
91,648 PREPARE.EXE
45 PROD.DAT
22,252 QKFLASH.EXE
9,923 README.TXT
4,260 TPCHKS.EXE
39,666 UPDTFLSH.EXE
6,958 UPDTMN.EXE
12,501 USERINT.EXE
15,254 UTILINFO.EXE
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

And all files in 1QUJ08US.IMG are: D:\ECP
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
315,404 $018E000.FL2
8,000 COMMAND.COM
36 CONFIG.SYS
16,910 ECFLASH2.EXE
45 PROD.DAT
17,812 QKFLASH.EXE
990 README.TXT
4,260 TPCHKS.EXE
89,738 UPDTEC.EXE
31,134 UPDTFLSH.EXE
12,501 USERINT.EXE
15,226 UTILINFO.EXE
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

* Okie, now plug AC Adapter, charge full battery to your laptop and continue third step:

** '''Flash BIOS first,'''
1. Power On, press blue button on keyboard: '''Access IBM'''

2. On "Utilities", double click " Diagnostic disk"

3. Your laptop will start PC-DOS, wait when this message appear:
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
Please insert the first floppy diskette and
Press any key to continue
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

4. Press Ctrl + Break, you will see :
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><pre><nowiki>Terminate batch job (Y/N) ?</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

5. Okie, press Y, you will get DOS prompt like D:\
{{NOTE|D:\ is my RAMDISK, C:\ is my disk format as FAT.!}}

6. Enter to c:\BIOS
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
c:
cd c:\BIOS
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

7. Run FLASH2.EXE /u $018E000.FL1

8. Wait flash progress compelete and reboot.
** '''Flash ECP'''
Follow above instruction from step 1 to 5

6. Enter to c:\ECP
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
c:
cd c:\ECP
</nowiki></pre></blockquote>

7. run UPDTFLSH.EXE $018E000.FL2

8. Follow UPDTFLSH's instructions

9. Wait flash complete and auto turn off computer.

I done it on my IBM Thinkpad X31.

Enjoy,

Tested by nm.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

BIOS Upgrade

2005-12-02T19:07:16Z

Casoe: /* Does work: */

{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;white-space:nowrap;" | __TOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
|}
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==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' update the Control Program first, then imediately update the BIOS. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program '''cabextract''' you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
|
|-
| {{240X}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
|
|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
|
|-
| {{390E}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
|
|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
|
|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
|
|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{560Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
|
|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.04]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.20]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.20]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.03]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.01]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.01]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

Category:T43

2005-11-26T16:51:36Z

Casoe: Some kind of spam annihilated.

{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== ThinkPad T43 ===
This pages gives an overview of all ThinkPad T43 related topics.

Machine Type: 1871, 1872, 1875 and 1876 (Intel Graphics)<br>
Machine Type: 2668, 2669, 2686 and 2687 (ATI Graphics)
==== Standard Features ====
* [[Intel Pentium M (Dothan)]] 1.6, 1.73, 1.86 or 2.0 GHz CPU
* One of the following chipsets and graphics adapters:
** [[Intel 915GM]] chipset with integrated [[Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900]] using shared system RAM
** [[Intel 915PM]] chipset and an [[ATI Mobility Radeon X300]] with 64MB on-chip dedicated RAM
* One of the following displays:
** 14.1" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
** 14.1" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution
** 15.0" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
** 15.0" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution
* 256 or 512MB memory standard, 2GB max
* 40, 60 or 80GB PATA HDD{{footnote|1}}
* [[AD1981B]] AC'97 Audio controller
* [[Ethernet Controllers|Broadcom 10/100/1000 Ethernet]]
* [[UltraBay|UltraBay Slim]] with one of the following:
** DVD-ROM
** DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo
** DVDÂ±RW
* [[CDC slot]] with one of the following:
** [[IBM Integrated 56K Modem (MDC-2)]]
** [[IBM Integrated Bluetooth IV with 56K Modem (BMDC-3)]]
* [[MiniPCI slot]] with one of the following:
** none (empty)
** [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II]]
** [[Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter]]
** [[Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter]]
* [[CardBus slot]] (Type 2)
* [[ExpressCard slot|ExpressCard/54 slot]]
* [[Embedded Security Subsystem|IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0]]
* [[Active Protection System|IBM Active Protection System]]
* [[Integrated Fingerprint Reader]] on select systems
* [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
[[Image:ThinkpadT43P.JPG|ThinkPad T43]]
|}
* [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/27r0949.pdf ThinkPad T43 - Hardware Maintenance Manual (for 1XXX series T43s) (February 2005)] (4,461,520 Bytes)
* [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/27r0700.pdf ThinkPad T43/p - Hardware Maintenance Manual (for 2XXX series T43s) (January 2005)] (4,534,423 Bytes)
* [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-58597 ThinkPad T43/p - Software and Device Drivers]

{{footnotes|
#While the physical disk is PATA (IDE), it is accessed through a SATA controller and a SATA-to-PATA bridge. It thus appears as a SATA device to the operating system, which casues some [[Problems with SATA and Linux|problems under Linux]]. The SATA-to-PATA bridge also necessitates drive firmware changes, causing a [[Problem with non-ThinkPad hard disks|problem with non-ThinkPad hard disks]].
}}

[[Category:Models]]

Fglrx

2005-07-30T12:05:48Z

Casoe: /* Problems & Help */

== ATI drivers for Linux ==
Linux ATI driver for select Radeon, FireGL and Mobility boards

How much is the speed gain versus the opensource drivers?

- On the old drivers, I've noticed appx 40% speed gain with ATI fglrx vs open source drivers. However, there are issues with freezing/garbage after suspend, garbage when resizing desktop (ctrl-alt-plus, ctrl-alt-minus), and garbage while using VMware. The current 8.14.13 has shown 400% improvement over using "radeon" or "ati" in xorg.conf. 1200FPS glxgears! (''note that glxgears isnt a benchmark tool, its so simple that its value is without any meaning... you can only compare glxgears using the same drivers/machine, if you change any of then you can have higher/lower values and in real life programs/games happend the opposite. Think in the car engine rpm, higher rpm in the same car usually its a faster car, change anything and its meaningless. ie: gears, truck, wheel size, etc make it useless'')

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html

=== Status ===
Current version: 8.14.13 (9th June 2005)

=== Problems & Help ===

'''Driver Version 8.8.25:''' The following patch may be needed for kernels >= 2.6.10:
[http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33798874 http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33798874]

'''Driver Version 8.8.25:''' For kernels >= 2.6.11-rc1 try the following patch:
http://www.gehirn.org.uk/wiki/images/8.8.25-kernel-2.6.11+.patch

'''If the ATI driver works only without the hardware acceleration''', take into consideration that fglrx_dri.so was linked
against libstdc++.so.5 which may not be present if your system uses gcc-3.4. To fix this, compile gcc-3.3.5
and copy libstdc++.so.5* to /usr/lib and update the dynamic linker cache.

'''Troubles using software suspend''' : when the computer comes back of suspend, X only displays a garbaged image and the computer is frozen. You have to install [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/vbetool/ vbetool] and use it to save/restore the video card state. If you use swsusp2 scripts you just have to uncomment ''"EnableVbetool yes"'' in ''/etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf''. Tested with kernel 2.6.10, Debian packaged ATI drivers and [http://www.suspend2.net swsusp2] patch on a IBM Thinkpad T42p.

This does not seem to work on the T43: The machine displays a sligthly garbaged image and is frozen upon resume. (It does work as long as the fglrx kernel driver is not inserted.) (Tested on kernel 2.6.12-rc6 with suspend2 2.1.9 and ATI driver version 8.14.13.)

Works on the T42, tested with SuSE 9.3, kernel-default (2.6.11), ATI driver 8.14.13 (for instructions see: /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/contrib)

'''Troubles with large RAM''' : The driver (version 8.14.13 tested on a T43) does not seem to be able to cope with large amounts of RAM: with 512 MB it works, with 1.5 GB it crashes the machine as soon as X is started. The problem is present only if the ''fglrx'' kernel module is loaded, but independetly of whether ''"CONFIG_HIGHMEM"'' is enabled (I.e. the actual amount of RAM available to the system does not seem to matter, but rather how mauch RAM is physically installed.).

A workaround is to limit RAM by kernel option mem=864m in lilo.conf (lilo) oder menu.lst (grub). Hopefully ATI will fix this in future releases.

=== Packages ===
*{{Debian}} Packages: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
*{{SUSE}} Packages: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/
*{{Gentoo}} {{cmdroot|emerge media-video/ati-drivers}}
*{{Fedora}} Packages: http://rpm.livna.org -- {{cmdroot|yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r) ati-fglrx }}

=== Useful links ===
* [http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/linux.html ATI Linux Driver FAQ]
* [http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.12.10.html ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes] <tt>(for 8.12.10)</tt>
* [http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/ ATI Radeon Linux How-To]
* [http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=61&daysprune=30&order=asc&sort=title Rage3D Linux Discussion Forum]
* [http://www.driverheaven.net/forumdisplay.php?f=103 Radeon Driver Forum at Driverheaven]
* [http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ]
* [http://ati.cchtml.com/ Unofficial community ATI bugzilla] Very newly setup (!) bugzilla, which might grow to be a source for information about ATI bugs. Might then be monitored by ATI guys ([http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333438751&postcount=386], [http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1333439009&postcount=390]). We will see how this develops.

== ThinkPads that may be supported ==
Supported chips, as found in select IBM ThinkPads:
* [[ATI Mobility FireGL 9000]]
** {{T40p}}
* [[ATI Mobility FireGL T2]]
** {{R50p}}
** {{T41p}}, {{T42p}}
* [[ATI Mobility FireGL V3200]]
** {{T43p}}
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9000]]
** {{R50}}, {{R51}}
** {{T40}}, {{T41}}, {{T42}}
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9600]]
** {{T42}}
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon X300]]
** {{R52}}
** {{T43}}

[[Category:Drivers]]