Leanna,
Thank you. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu installation, but that's a
possibility, too. I'm still perplexed that something in the installation
could overwrite the protected bios/EEPROM/NVRAM memory. If anyone has a
"virgin" copy of the BIN file from a CPxH Dell Latitude, it would be a great
help in restoring my bios.
Regards,
George Garrett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leann Ogasawara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:18 PM
Subject: [Bug 259474] Re: Ubuntu 8.04 corrupts Dell CPxH Bios
Hi CaptGeorge,
The previous call for testing of the 2.6.27 kernel was actually an
automated response. We needed to reach as many bug reporters at once
and manually updating bug reports by hand would have been extremely
inefficient. It was bound to happen that the stock reply would not
apply to all reports, so I apologize for any confusion it may have
caused here. We have however been monitoring any responses we've been
receiving so thank you for the reply.
I'm going to reassign this to the kernel team to take a look. However,
I'm not positive that this is an issue with the kernel but rather with
the installer. Thanks.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team)
Status: New => Triaged
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Ubuntu 8.04 corrupts Dell CPxH Bios
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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.
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