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 1HohWp-0005Nf-Df for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:04:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HF2gpb032406; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:02:42 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 l4HEtC2O021532 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 14:55:13 GMT Received: from [4.231.91.92] (dialup-4.231.91.92.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.91.92]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4HEt8qj025029 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:55:09 -0500 Message-ID: <464C6CCB.2050909@exceedtech.net> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:55:07 -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> <464B877F.8040106@exceedtech.net> <20070517100444.5f1442f0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070517100444.5f1442f0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------030600000509080709030505" X-Archives-Salt: 115e13a6-8274-4373-b32c-ec05ac2b4b64 X-Archives-Hash: 4a29a4231fb820f1a14a7252da3f277e This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030600000509080709030505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have >> a OS on that stick? >> > > No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT > partition it can read the new firmware file from. > > > Now that is kewl!! I need to make sure the next mobo I buy has that feature. ;-) Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. --------------030600000509080709030505 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil Bothwick wrote: 
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote:

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

No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT
partition it can read the new firmware file from.

Now that is kewl!!  I need to make sure the next mobo I buy has that feature.  ;-) 

Thanks for the info.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

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