[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash

[Mark Street]

Lilo is a two stage boot loader.  The it looks like the first stage is loading 
out of the MBR, the second stage loader boot.b in /boot is not being found or 
not loading.

Is this a SCSI drive?

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 14:55, jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an old HP Vectra P2 that I'm having trouble with. Basically, I can
> install an OS, but I can't boot it after the install. I get "L", and that's
> it. I'm pretty sure that's an "L" as in Lilo. Anyway, I've installed a very
> bare bones RH9.0 on it.
>
> I was talking with a sys admin at work and he said he'd run across an issue
> simila r to this and he upgraded the BIOS and that took care of it. I went
> to HP land and found the upgrade, an exe for Windows NT.
>
> My question is, is there any way I can upgrade the BIOS without installing
> Windows? Is there a comparable BIOS upgrade program written for Linux? I
> really don't know much about this, but I don't know what else to do but
> install windows, upgrade the bios, and then reinstall redhat? But that
> doesn't seem right...

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