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 1HoRK0-0006UQ-MB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:46:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GLhO2E011649; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:43:24 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 l4GLXXE6029172 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 21:33:34 GMT Received: from [4.231.90.15] (dialup-4.231.90.15.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.15]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4GLXUqj006576 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 16:33:31 -0500 Message-ID: <464B78A9.2080308@exceedtech.net> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:33:29 -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> <464B1375.1090806@exceedtech.net> <20070516154445.09bd66a2@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <464B1B11.1010000@exceedtech.net> <20070516161055.3eb730e3@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070516161055.3eb730e3@pascal.spore.ath.cx> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040604010100010609010302" X-Archives-Salt: 2b33fa8d-4871-4571-a7b9-40e37958ca74 X-Archives-Hash: c914ad2631f2d7429ba1b1d2df7a5052 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040604010100010609010302 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dan Farrell wrote: > 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. > I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. --------------040604010100010609010302 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dan Farrell wrote:

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.

I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-)

Dale

:-) :-) :-)

-- 
www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967

Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.

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