From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HoQtP-0001gO-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:18:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GLHSKd021239; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:17:28 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4GLAu66013073 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:10:56 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E741D45A for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 16:10:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:10:55 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8. Message-ID: <20070516161055.3eb730e3@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <464B1B11.1010000@exceedtech.net> References: <46444041.1040404@ergolight-sw.com> <87mz084d5d.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <46480D8F.1040307@ep.mine.nu> <200705151937.56063.mereandor@gmail.com> <464A42A8.80107@ep.mine.nu> <464A44F3.2050306@asterisk-gentoo.org> <464B0E55.2080702@ep.mine.nu> <464B1375.1090806@exceedtech.net> <20070516154445.09bd66a2@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <464B1B11.1010000@exceedtech.net> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a21176e7-bbcc-4a94-bb26-f2515d82a2a3 X-Archives-Hash: e7b58e1b8b9df2f8f40b1fe8bee4df14 On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 Dale 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list