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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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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