Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500
Dale <dalek@××××××××××.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.  
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