BIOS settings for Thinkpads using Ubuntu

[Wade Smart]

techlists at comcast.net wrote:
> I just recently bought a refurbished Thinkpad T41 laptop off the IBM 
> website and intended to configure it for  XP/Ubuntu dual boot. The 
> laptop worked fine and ran stable with anything related to Windows (XP 
> and I also tried Vista), but had frequent random freezes with anything 
> related to Linux (the Ubuntu install CD and a Helix live CD).
> 
> I did eventually get Ubuntu installed with the install CD but it still 
> keeps freezing up at random moments; it does not seem to freeze up at 
> anything specific.
> 
> I let memtest run all night to check for faulty memory (no errors), and 
> ran through all the IBM PC Doctor hardware tests (under XP) to see if 
> there were hardware errors with anything (again, no errors).
> 
> I've had a great experience in the past with some older Thinkpads under 
> similar setups (dual boot Windows/Linux) so this is kind of puzzling. I 
> don't think there's any faulty hardware involved because of the hardware 
> tests run, and the fact that everything works fine under Windows (unless 
> there's some weird problem that slips under the radar on these 
> diagnostic programs)..
> 
> So I'm wondering if there's some BIOS settings that need to be tweaked 
> to make things work more smoothly under Linux. On older BIOSs there used 
> to be a setting for non-Windows OSs, but this Thinkpad BIOS didn't have 
> such an option (that I could find anyway).
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion? I've got 7 days to return for a refund if I 
> can't resolve it, so there's still another few days to troubleshoot the 
> problem.
> 
> Paul
> 

20090131 1557 GMT-5

Paul i have a R50e and had the same trouble at first. It was the cd I 
burned. It worked fine on other machines but not that laptop. I finally 
just went to the alt install cd and it worked.

Wade

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