On 12/18/2011 05:48 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: <> > Wanted to get back on this while mulling / understanding the rest. > > Its an HP bios that has that pseudo-gui with the limited use of the > arrow keys, return, f-keys, and esc. I went through every page looking > for anything that looked remotely usable as a solution. I didn't see > anything for showing detail during the boot (though I may not be > understanding what you mean by "detail"). Definitely no "other", its > just cd/dvd or hard drive as boot options. I got the date and revision > number of what I have and compared it against HP release notes for bios > updates. It looks like Phoenix who I have seen on a number of different > HP machine's bioses (? is there a plural of bios ?). -=- date of bios is what usually gives you an idea if it is usb boot enabled. not sure when usb got around to being bootable, but i well imagine anything in past 5 years should/would have that ability. "bioses" is correct, even if your spell checker does not know it. ;) > My fear is that I can't afford to screw up a bios update on this > machine. -=- for now, just used the 'chroot' procedure to check your files. and as stated, anything that was an rpm package will/should verify. > Thanks for your patience and continued help ... especially when I > admitted that I might be considering cutting my losses on this issue. -=- not a problem. glad i can help. not much on tv tonight worth watching anyway. 8-D -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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