From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:10:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516161055.3eb730e3@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464B1B11.1010000@exceedtech.net>
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500
Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update
> >> the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not
> >> have a floppy either.
> > My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick.
> LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they
> are looking ahead though.
> Dale
USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of
dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs.
There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos
with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the
kernel.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-11 10:06 [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8 David Harel
2007-05-11 11:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-11 14:39 ` David Harel
2007-05-11 14:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-11 15:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-12 16:22 ` David Harel
2007-05-12 18:45 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-12 19:10 ` David Harel
2007-05-12 19:47 ` Graham Murray
[not found] ` <46461CE8.2080900@ergolight-sw.com>
2007-05-12 21:44 ` Graham Murray
2007-05-13 6:10 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-13 21:13 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-13 21:38 ` Graham Murray
2007-05-14 7:19 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-15 17:37 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-15 23:30 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-15 23:40 ` Karl Haines
2007-05-16 5:44 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-16 13:59 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 14:21 ` Dale
2007-05-16 14:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-16 14:54 ` Dale
2007-05-16 21:10 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2007-05-16 21:33 ` Dale
2007-05-16 22:01 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-16 22:36 ` Dale
2007-05-17 9:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 14:55 ` Dale
2007-05-18 10:51 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 15:36 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 19:43 ` Dale
2007-05-16 20:57 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-16 21:35 ` Dale
2007-05-11 15:33 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-11 12:24 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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