[indiana-discuss] Nvidia driver problem

[Albert Lee]

Hi Antonello,

For future reference, there's a handy tool called MEMDISK
(http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK ) which loads a floppy
image and boots it as if it were a a real floppy.

Just add something like the following to GRUB's menu.lst:

title Floppy image
kernel /boot/memdisk
module /boot/floppy.img

-Albert

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 05:53 -0700, Antonello Cruz wrote:
> Bart, Chris and John
> 
> Thank you all for the tips on upgrading the BIOS. I managed to get a USB 
> floppy drive and used FreeDOS to upgrade the BIOS.
> 
> John I'll lookup the solx86-interest list to have a look in that approach.
> 
> BTW, after the BIOS upgrade, the laptop is running build 100a smoothly.
> 
> 
> Antonello
> 
> Antonello Cruz wrote:
> > John Martin wrote:
> >> Your Dell M1330 needs an SBIOS upgrade.  Currently:
> >>
> >>  ID    SIZE TYPE
> >>  0     48   SMB_TYPE_BIOS (BIOS information)
> >>
> >>    Vendor: Dell Inc.
> >>    Version String: A08
> >>    Release Date: 01/14/2008
> >>
> >> The A12 SBIOS (07/09/2008, level: Recommended) has this item:
> >>
> >>  1. Added enhancement for thermal control.
> > Thanks John, now I need to figure out how to upgrade the BIOS...
> > I need to boot either windows or DOS according to Dell's instructions... 
> >   Not a fruitful experience :-(
> > 
> > Antonello
> > 
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