2 questions.. 1. laptops and linuxbios, 2. bios-savior for laptops?

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Feb 20 09:54:00 CET 2003


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Nicholas Mistry wrote:

> 1.  I havent really put much thought to using linuxbios on a laptop, but a
> recent post has planted a bug in my brain to try and get it to work on
> some of the older laptops i have laying around.    How many people have
> tried to get linux bios on their laptops, and how well does it work.

we tried with IBM but IBM wouldn't let IBM put linuxbios on an IBM laptop.

Yes, this is all true. 

> 2.  What type of "bios savior" options are there for laptops?  or is that
> just a pipe dream at this point?

linuxbios fallback would work fine as a bios savior. Plus, many laptops 
have on options if you fry the flash.

ron




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