Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to fit the updated version. Just as an excercise I'd like to find out if manually setting the BIOS in advance to a non auto detect setting would fix this problem. If the original poster could at least try this before doing the flash upgrade I'd be pleased to hear from them but generally speaking an upgraded BIOS would be nicer. -- ---GRiP--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to fit the updated version. Just as an excercise I'd like to find out if manually setting the BIOS in advance to a non auto detect setting would fix this problem. If the original poster could at least try this before doing the flash upgrade I'd be pleased to hear from them but generally speaking an upgraded BIOS would be nicer. pretty sure i tried that, no luck. but it was about a year ago, so don't trust me on that. :-) cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
Hi Slugs, The BIOS is all OK now and reading the larger HDD. The docs on the BIOS motherboard site said that the 2Mb BIOS upgrade accepts a larger HDD. The docs did not mention in the 1Mb upgrade that is fixes the large HDD problem. I only had a 1Mb BIOS not the 2Mb BIOS. So I flashed it anyway. Turned out to be the correct decision as the BIOS now recognises the larger HDD. To answer Grant Parnell's question, I did try to manually set the BIOS without auto to every config it would take. Ie. manually putting in drive parameters etc. No go. If the hardware doesn't like it, the software never will. Ben. Grant Parnell wrote: On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to fit the updated version. Just as an excercise I'd like to find out if manually setting the BIOS in advance to a non auto detect setting would fix this problem. If the original poster could at least try this before doing the flash upgrade I'd be pleased to hear from them but generally speaking an upgraded BIOS would be nicer. -- ---GRiP--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
Hi slugs, I decided to upgrade my hard disk only to find that the BIOS does not like a 40Gb hard disk! it's a VIA chipset with an Award modular BIOS. Anyone know of anywhere in Sydney that I can get an upgrade. I have a 1Mb BIOS chip and it needs upgrading to a 2Mb chip to allow for the flash upgrade. I've heard others talk about the rocks markets. would it help? where is it and when is it on? Or anywhere else that may help. Any help much appreciated! Thanks Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! Just don't forget your settings in the bios, write them down somewhere! On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi slugs, I decided to upgrade my hard disk only to find that the BIOS does not like a 40Gb hard disk! it's a VIA chipset with an Award modular BIOS. Anyone know of anywhere in Sydney that I can get an upgrade. I have a 1Mb BIOS chip and it needs upgrading to a 2Mb chip to allow for the flash upgrade. I've heard others talk about the rocks markets. would it help? where is it and when is it on? Or anywhere else that may help. Any help much appreciated! Thanks Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to fit the updated version. -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
I wish i remember the name, but i'm sure someone else on the list could point you in the right direction, What about the linux project where you don't use bios and flash the linux kernel directly into the flash instead. On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:54, you wrote: Hi slugs, I decided to upgrade my hard disk only to find that the BIOS does not like a 40Gb hard disk! it's a VIA chipset with an Award modular BIOS. Anyone know of anywhere in Sydney that I can get an upgrade. I have a 1Mb BIOS chip and it needs upgrading to a 2Mb chip to allow for the flash upgrade. I've heard others talk about the rocks markets. would it help? where is it and when is it on? Or anywhere else that may help. Any help much appreciated! Thanks Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
