Re: [Bug 43331] Re: Bug on bootup of Linux kernel on PanasonicToughbook S10

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Jul 07 2012 - 15:02:24 EST


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Where would I get a new BIOS ? Has Panasonic released a bios update for this
> machine that fixes this problem?

looks like they do not bios update for S10 yet.

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support-bios.asp#CF-U1

maybe you can try to email or call their support.

>
> I guess the other possibility is to live with the error message, or is this
> error part of the reason why my machine has such bad battery use? (less than
> 1/2 the time that Windows gets on the same machine).

not sure, You can try to boot with pci=nocrs to see if there is any difference.

Thanks

Yinghai
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