What are the repercussions of this message? I have OI running as a home file server, so if it's just that it's cryptographicly insecure I'm not too worried about it. On Apr 2, 2012 10:42 PM, "Jan Owoc" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
