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 1HoKVi-0000rk-CW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:29:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GERquC003884; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:27:52 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4GELiBl028373 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:21:45 GMT Received: from [4.230.219.71] (dialup-4.230.219.71.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.219.71]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4GELgqj012419 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:43 -0500 Message-ID: <464B1375.1090806@exceedtech.net> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070504 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8. 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> In-Reply-To: <464B0E55.2080702@ep.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 26632274-d81b-48db-9d20-eb29f898830e X-Archives-Hash: b9171a10badbd0d68bda9d1fb80e4438 Neil Walker wrote: > Karl Haines wrote: >> Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a >> good thing. > > I keep all the BIOSs im my machines uptodate (8 at the moment, > building another tomorrow). ;) > >> Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you >> can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, >> support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! >> > > I haven't owned a floppy drive in years so I have to be a bit more > devious. ;) > > Anyway, thanks for your advice. :) > > > Be lucky, > > Neil > > 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. Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? Curious. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list