Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030524AbWHIGPQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:15:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030526AbWHIGPQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:15:16 -0400 Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:48953 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030524AbWHIGPO (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:15:14 -0400 From: Ian Campbell To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Nigel Cunningham , LKML , Suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net, linux-pm@osdl.org, pavel@suse.cz In-Reply-To: References: <200608090750.40111.nigel@suspend2.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:14:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1155104090.5812.5.camel@insmouth> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.176 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ijc@hellion.org.uk Subject: Re: swsusp and suspend2 like to overheat my laptop X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hopkins.hellion.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hmm, it requires windows, and I've already wiped out that partition. > I did a search but it seems really scary to update the BIOS via Linux. I've done it in the past by using memdisk[0] to boot a freedos floppy image[1] which I have added the BIOS update to... It worked but it was a bit nerve wracking ;-) Ian. [0] http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php [1] http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/ (FWIW I used odin2880.img) -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #382: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/