Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100
Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
From: Idwer Vollering vid...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, flash...@flashrom.org
Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer:
http
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
More civilised notebook manufactures usually provide
also self booting (CD
I've HP compaq 6715s laptop.
It's all right with 10-current.
I've got wireless and at one point
I even managed to get flash working.
My problem is with BIOS.
Apparently it's wrong and John Baldwin
provided me with a pci.c patch to get
it to boot.
There is an updated BIOS version, but
From cpgh...@cordula.ws Thu Oct 25 03:40:28 2012
Heh... ;-)
(U)EFI is nothing new for us old farts: we've had OpenBoot[1] on
Sun hardware for ages, and even though it didn't limit us w.r.t. the
OS you wanted to boot (that's why you can install
On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
I'm probably missing something here.
ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing
about checking for non-signed code.
I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc.
And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g.
USB flash drives is
From br...@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012
On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk
wrote:
I'm probably missing something here.
ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing
about checking for non-signed code.
I can boot
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
So this means I might not
be able to boot freebsd at all
on future ia64 boxes..
Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the firmware/BIOS
settings.
--
Bruce Cran
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:20 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
From br...@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012
On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk
wrote:
I'm probably missing something here.
ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops
with no BIOS, is this true?
Per termini technici, yes.
Some systems use EFI (or UEFI) instead of a BIOS.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
There is an updated BIOS version, but
so far I failed to get it installed.
HP only provide MS and freedos executables.
I tried BartPE - doesn't work.
Maybe you can utilize the approach to create the typical
DOS boot diskette
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