From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Hmm, interesting indeed.  Strange that ONE drive/Thinkpad in the A22 series
would do this, when I've done just this on my A20P, and another A22m as
well.

I'll give IBM EasyServe a call and see if they have a clue.

--
Glenn M.


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3fbce73b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Glenn, you're having so much trouble that I'll forward this WAG.  The
original
> HDs for some Thinkpads have some *firmware* features to support IBM's boot
> security scheme.  This involves *redirection* of the boot process at a
very
> low level, and very early on.  Talking to an authorized repair station or
a
> human being at IBM support might pay dividends, or at least save you some
> flailing around.
>
> There used to be secret BIOSes for some machines that omitted query to the
> secret partition, accessible only through the secret drive firmware.
>

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