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 1HoSFM-0000BP-H9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 22:45:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GMgXcf005889; Wed, 16 May 2007 22:42:33 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 l4GMao4Y030914 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 22:36:51 GMT Received: from [4.231.91.252] (dialup-4.231.91.252.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.91.252]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4GMalqj008595 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:48 -0500 Message-ID: <464B877F.8040106@exceedtech.net> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -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> <464B78A9.2080308@exceedtech.net> <464B7F2E.4080703@electronsweatshop.com> In-Reply-To: <464B7F2E.4080703@electronsweatshop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c5b31758-09df-402e-a59f-eea7320baeff X-Archives-Hash: 585c18f926822442f7df3d764bd8743a 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 :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list