Michael, I still haven't found anything to work. However, I haven't looked very much either. George
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fritscher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:19 PM Subject: [Bug 259474] Re: Ubuntu 8.04 corrupts Dell CPxH Bios hmm, a bin does not help because the bios itself is intact, only the nvram isn't. If anybody finds an utility which can initalize it, exspecially set a service tag could help both him and me, my service has forgot to set a service tag while replace the mainboard, and now the service is bancrot... But on my D600 everything but setting a system or bios-password works fine. -- Ubuntu 8.04 corrupts Dell CPxH Bios https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259474 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: After a successful install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my Dell Dimension 8300 desktop, I decided to install it on my older Dell Latitude CPxH laptop with Pentium III 500 MHz processor, 256 KB ram. I was hoping to bring back a little "zip" for the older machine which was now running Windows XP Pro. However, during the install I got a warning that I only had 255 KB ram (?) and Ubuntu might not install properly. As predicted, it didn't and locked up on install. However, the REAL problem is that now I can no longer access the BIOS. I can get into bios setup with F2 as normal, but cannot make changes or even exit {ESC}. Also the dell service tag and asset numbers are now blank. I've tried re-flashing the BIOS from 1.44 MB disk to no avail. Right now, I'd just like to get the bios working again. Any help would really be appreciated. -- Ubuntu 8.04 corrupts Dell CPxH Bios https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
