[PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 23:14:44 UTC 2020


I guess, after thinking more about this, hot to explain this.

32b/64b should matter when you are using existing windows installation.
When you are booting the media it is all matching the booted OS or BIOS
update application.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 15:05 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:06:16 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>
> >I have several .iso files, and I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to
> >use. The web page where I downloaded it had a button that said it was
> >to downloiad the 2.29-1.08, which is for a t61. But my iso files are
> >7luj27uc.iso, #1.iso, and #2.iso, plus several more in folders labeled
> >'32-bit.' None are labeled 2.29-1.08.
>
> I finally decided that the 7luj27uc.iso was the one I should use. I
> made that decision based on the fact that it was the only one that was
> never mentioned in any of the instructions. If it was the one to use
> for a 64-bit OS why didn't they label it
> 'this_is_the_64-bit_middleton_bios_
> that_you've_been_looking_all_over_hell_for.iso? I mean, 7luj27uc?
> Honestly.
>
> It seems to be working. That is, I have no working disk to check it
> with, but a live Xubuntu 20.04 flash drive booted OK. We'll see after my
> new SSD shows up.
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