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Thread: How to Upgrade the Thinkpad x61 BIOS

  1. #91
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    Re: How to Upgrade the Thinkpad x61 BIOS

    Huge thanks!
    Worked like a charm updating Middleton's 2.29 BIOS on my T60/61 Frankenpad under Fedora 17

  2. #92
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    Re: How to Upgrade the Thinkpad x61 BIOS

    I tried to use these instructions to upgrade the bios of a x201, which looked a lot easier than anything on http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series
    Like some other people, I was trying to install from an iso in the 20MB range and needed to use an offset when mounting it, using http://linux-thinkpad.10952.n7.nabbl...h-td20125.html as a guide. To fix "cp: failed to preserve ownership for `/media/EED3-FFBD/TPCHKS.EXE': Operation not permitted" I used
    Code:
    sudo cp -dRfv --preserve=mode,timestamps /mnt/cdrom/* /media/EED3-FFBD/
    The newest iso is 6quj19us.iso but when mounted I saw a bunch of corrupted file names /mnt/cdrom, so I tried the next newest, 6quj18uc.iso which looked much cleaner. After getting everything setup (and trying many times) I booted with the USB stick, typed "command.com" at the prompt and got the error "Incorrect DOS version"


    IncorrectDosVersion.jpg

    To convince myself that everything else is working I tried the same procedure with X61 ISO 7nuj22uc.iso and I was able to start the upgrade program.

    I tried the simple looking instructions in "X220 BIOS UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS - USB" (using geteltorito.pl) but got an "Missing operating system" error.

    Hints welcome. Thank you.
    Last edited by tomgobravo; September 14th, 2013 at 08:11 PM. Reason: add image, for entertainment

  3. #93
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    Re: How to Upgrade the Thinkpad x61 BIOS

    I gave up on trying to do the upgrade without modifying the target system and followed http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_U...oting_CD_Image which worked very well.

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