Why the heck don't motherboard and BIOS manufacturers display the BIOS version in a better place? They could display it on one of the BIOS setup screens - is that just too "far out" and crazy?
Some older bioses boot from USB in "floppy mode" (it shows the disk as a floppy if it is not partionned, otherwise the first partition is shown as a floppy, possibly with a limitation of size).
I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10, and it's not recognizing my floppy drive (3.5" 1.44), although my computer's BIOS recognizes, and will attempt to boot from it if a floppy disk is in when booting. Is there a way to get Ubuntu to access the floppy drive?
Your ALSA information is located at
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0f...547d9ed692c6fe
bcm@bcm-laptop:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios
[sudo] password for bcm:
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: TOSHIBA
Version: V2.20
Release Date: 10/01/2008
Address: 0xE47B0
Runtime Size: 112720 bytes
ROM Size: 1024 kB
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I use a laptop of GT630M, ubuntu 12.04 64 bits.
Here is my BIOS information:
sam@sam:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 2.11
# SMBIOS entry point at 0x000f04c0
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: K55VM.202
Release Date: 03/13/2012
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 6
A summary of my experience with floppies and Fedora (starting at FC2 and continuing to FC 12) is "Fedora eats floppies". At least it destroys them in my hands. Both floppies and floppy drives are an imperfect technology, but that cannot explain the many floppies that I have ruined using many different machines and floppy drives and versions of Fedora.
Took ages to find these particular versions of "AFUDOS" DOS BIOS flasher for AMI BIOS, esp Asus mobos.
These versions allow BIOS downgrading...
http://rapidshare.com/files/42689575...os_207_227.rar
You will need to put this on a bootable CD or USB drive along with your BIOS file, as the Bios file is over 2MB and will not fit on a floppy.
Now boot into Dos and type the following,
Gnome desktop.
64 Bit
AMD processor
Fedora 12.
Today 3/12 I updated my Fedora 12 instalation. There was 68 updates including kernal 2/6.31.6-145....
After the update ALL references to the floppy drive have gone!!
There is no icon in "computer"
There is no floppy in the File browser
There is no floppy in theDisk Utility
I was wondering if this kind of setup is possible?
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