On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Richard Heil <[email protected]> wrote: > About upgrading the bios, well I bought this computer new in December. This > may be part of the problem is that this is too new so how can I upgrade?
The problem with the randomness provider shows up on a variety of hardware and virtual machines - it isn't anything specific to your hardware setup. Updating the bios (or changing some things like the ACPI mentioned in bug 995) may change the order or length of time which some boot processes take. Often the bios version that is preloaded on the computer is no longer the current one by the time you buy it. Normally you should not update the bios unless you experience problems with the current one (you have problems, so you can try updating). The support section of Dell's website will let you download a Windows-only tool to update to a newer bios; here is the US site (I don't know what country you bought your Dell in): http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriversHome/NeedProductSelection > I did try to use it on a much older laptop ( Gateway 5002 WLMI ) and it > get by this error message and continues to boot. I do however get a lot of > hardware issues with OI and I don't have the greater power and hardware > virtualization that this Dell has. Are you running OI on the bare hardware in each case, or in a virtual machine? In the case of the Dell, you imply that you get the error about the randomness provider and then booting stops; bug 995 should not prevent the boot process from continuing. Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
