[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash

Jeff Hemminger jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org
Wed Jul 9 19:58:00 PDT 2003


No it's not a SCSI.

Mark Street wrote:

>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:
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>>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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