Lenovo BIOS boot fix
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Jul 13 23:25:56 UTC 2015
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> This is possibly orthogonal and possibly not of use on X2nn systems, but I boot my T520 with a GPT formatted disk as the secondary drive by having the MBR disk0 configured with booteasy
> and telling it to boot disk1. While this is of no use on single spindle systems like the X220, I have been told that a MBR USB drive can be used to do the same thing. I have not tried
> this and can't confirm, though. Clearly a kludge work-around, but better than nothing and works well for me as I have always left Windows on the main drive and put FreeBSD on the
> removable one.
Please, whoever has one of these systems, find a contact address for
Lenovo. It should be on every one of these messages, and we should be
encouraging every affected user to contact Lenovo support. I can post
it in the forums, also.
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