Re: SSDT - Any more ideas -- SOLVED

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Finally solved!! I had removed the Bios battery [so I thought] {incorrect pictures and information on the internet #$%@}. I then removed the real BIOS battery and the problem was solved. My apologies for running you around a tree. I learned a great amount from all of you.

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed that the laptop recognizes the usb stick at

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. At this stage we are left to guess. 1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd afterwards, any formatting was a waste

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick.

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. At this stage we are left to guess. 1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd afterwards, any formatting was a waste

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 22:15 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I set the parameters for this list to text only. When part of the email is HTML, Icedove defaults to HTML. I now see my error... I have to set the format

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS, take a look at the source, after it's coming through the list, it's plain text, not HTML: [snip] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [snip] On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 22:15 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: On Thu, Mar 21,

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:05:35AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: 1] What is a MUA? You are using: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 That is your Mail User Agent. Icedove is just a repackaged thunderbird. 2] Other than the HTML, Use

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:53:11AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Don't be afraid to search google *BEFORE* posting your question, have a read of: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html G! Sorry. That should be: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- If you're not

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Ethan, I'm a little bit pissed off, since I got mails in my private and in my Debian folders and I'm not willing to puzzle the strange formatted HTML mails. However, as already pointed out, but anyway with mistakes regarding to input and output, ... - compressed files first need to be

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) However, believe it or not, you are nearly there! On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 07:36:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: - it might be that you have overwritten the MBR of your USB stick, if so, the partition table now is destroyed and you first might need to format it before you can continue ... Overwriting the MBR is the whole point of getting a

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What's wrong with my posting style? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What's wrong with my posting style? PS: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I can't help you

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What's wrong with my posting style? You are misunderstanding me. Style is not something I'm generally given to

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:28 +, Brian wrote: On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What's wrong with my posting style? You are

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails to the list only. Sending email after being requested not to is spamming. Report it to his ISP. That /might/ work. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 08:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails to the list only. Sending email after being requested not to is spamming.

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) However, believe it or not, you are

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 09:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 09:51 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional. But you still continue ;). Unexperienced people are allowed to continue for a while and intellectually disabled users should be allowed to do it always. PhD IMO

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 15:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: 1] What is a MUA? 2] Other than the HTML, am I posting good questions? Ethan Oops, I don't get duplicates, but the mails are sorted to a wrong folder here. Please only reply to the list. MUA is for Mail User Agent, in other

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/03/13 10:00 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :)

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/03/13 10:44 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:44 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am going to be on vacation until 3 April. We'll continue this thread then. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I set the parameters for this list to text only. When part of the email is HTML, Icedove defaults to HTML. I now see my error... I have to set the format to preformat and everything works. You're almost there, your

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a Good Question, please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the image:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a Good Question, please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas - Problems

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am not trying to spam the list. I am afraid that this message was not noticed/read since you might have thought it was a restatement of previous messages. It outlines the problems that I am having with the USB stick. Thanks. Ethan == See Below... Dear List - I am

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a Good Question, please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ooops! This should have gone to the list. Original Message Subject:Re: SSDT - Any more ideas?? Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:30:04 -0700 From: Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com To: erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/20/2013 09:20 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Please be careful when you write that image to the USB stick, make sure to not get the /dev/sdX device name wrong, or you can cause data loss. Good advice! It can't harm to backup everything on the drives of the machine,

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-18 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/18/2013 03:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Please be careful when you write that image to the USB stick, make sure to not get the /dev/sdX device name wrong, or you can cause data loss. Good advice! It can't harm to

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 00:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 06:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 00:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:13:58 +0100, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: how old is it 2007 how much memory does it have 2G what is

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 17 March 2013 3:13:58 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: SNIP PS Please define Good Questions (TM) I'm new at this, and do not want to step on anyone's toes. Please read the following web page. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Follow the guidelines there and you've

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:06:30 +0100, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote: On Sunday 17 March 2013 3:13:58 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: PS Please define Good Questions (TM) I'm new at this, and do not want to step on anyone's toes. Please read the following web page.

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/03/13 03:13 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 04:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:13:58 +0100, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: how old is it

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: This seems to imply that booting off a USB stick should work. What is my error if I am mis-stating this. You need a DOS boot image you can boot from a USB stick, or (if your laptop has a CD drive, from a CD). http://derek.chezmarcotte.ca/?p=188

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Erwan David wrote: It seems SSDT is a BIOS thing dealing with power management... Why incriminate Debian when you get same error in booting windows ? SSDT is a suplementary ACPI methods table. As long as everything works fine, your laptop might just have a DSDT (the

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passedthe MD5SUM or other test? I bought this laptop from eBay

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 March 2013 15:27:27 Mark Neidorff wrote:  I bought this laptop from eBay as a used unit. It had Windows XP loaded when received, and displayed the same problem..  I installed the Debian from official disks. We (the list) like Good Questions (TM).  Your first question did

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media? http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/partedmagic/ Or a similar light weight Linux live media? OT: On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 20:25 +, Lisi Reisz

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media? http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/partedmagic/ Or a similar light weight Linux live media?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passedthe MD5SUM or other

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/03/2013 19:26, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD a écrit : On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD /Pres/CEO/ *Hygeia Biomedical