From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261806AbVGGTDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:03:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261916AbVGGTBM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:01:12 -0400 Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.78]:43657 "HELO smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261806AbVGGS7p (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:59:45 -0400 From: Shawn Starr Organization: sh0n.net To: hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:59:31 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: Erik Mouw , Martin Knoblauch , Dave Hansen , abonilla@linuxwireless.org, "'Pekka Enberg'" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , axboe@suse.de, "'Pekka Enberg'" References: <1120757693.5829.34.camel@localhost> <20050707184538.15647.qmail@web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050707185145.GA3503@harddisk-recovery.com> In-Reply-To: <20050707185145.GA3503@harddisk-recovery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507071459.31847.shawn.starr@rogers.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You can take the .exe file and turn this into a bootable CD (using a RW CD) I forgot how I did it, but if I remember correctly, I took a floppy dos image and made that into the boot 'stub' and threw the exe into the CD (a la El-Torito). I flashed the disk firmware once since I got the laptop. Shawn. On July 7, 2005 14:51, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for all > > supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" any > > more. > > I can imagine IBM doesn't do that because in that way you can't update > the firmware of the CD/DVD drive. Bootable FreeDOS floppy images would > be a nice idea, though. > > > Erik (not a ThinkPad owner)