Re: swsusp and suspend2 like to overheat my laptop

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Hmm, it requires windows, and I've already wiped out that partition.
> I did a search but it seems really scary to update the BIOS via Linux.

I've done it in the past by using memdisk[0] to boot a freedos floppy
image[1] which I have added the BIOS update to... It worked but it was a
bit nerve wracking ;-)

Ian.

[0] http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php
[1] http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/ (FWIW I used odin2880.img)

-- 
Ian Campbell

BOFH excuse #382:

Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems.

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