[indiana-discuss] Nvidia driver problem

[Jan Setje-Eilers]

Albert Lee wrote:
> 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

  It might be worth someones time to look into what it would take to 
ship this and a free dos image to go along with it. Memdisk (part of 
syslinux (which is loader, not a distro)), is GPL v2, so no issue there. 
Finding a DOS we'd feel OK about redistributing is more interesting. 
Even FreeDOS (GPL) has some potential issues around FAT32 and the like.

-jan


> 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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