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From: Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>
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 17:36:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464B877F.8040106@exceedtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464B7F2E.4080703@electronsweatshop.com>

Randy Barlow wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> >> 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.  ;-)
>
> They work just fine in Linux!
>
> R
>

Oooops, let me rephrase that.  To update the BIOS, does it have to have
a OS on that stick?

On the other thingy:

> root@smoker / # ls -al /dev/nv*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   0 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidia0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidiactl
> root@smoker / # 

That's all the nvidia stuff I saw.  Maybe I need to check on that kernel
or a newer one may help.

Dale

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 22:45 UTC|newest]

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
2007-05-16 21:33                                         ` Dale
2007-05-16 22:01                                           ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-16 22:36                                             ` Dale [this message]
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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