Re: Debian

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Problem is, if Richard hadn't flashed the bios recently (i.e., WAS known
working), sounds like the chip's a duffer. How big are bioses these days?
I have to say, I'm used to burning the old 8k eproms on Beebs, or for z80
type machines (thinking of the torch / tube here ;), but it's all similar
technology. Best bet is probably to get a new BIOS chip - they're not that
expensive. eproms are about 50p each at most..

Cheers,

Alex.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, wulfie wrote:

> you need a crisis recovery disk - in normal circumstances your bootblock
> is sacrosanct. Download the correct bios for the system, and a
> bootblock if this is a seperate file. Create the bootable flash floppy,
> make sure the system jumpers render the bootblock flashable & insert the
> disk. The system should boot from the floppy. Flash, making sure if there
> is a specific bootblock update section to use this as well.
> > > I've just about finished a new Debian machine.  Switched it on 
> > > tonight and got the following error message.......
> > > Award Bootblock  BIOS v1.0
> > > BIOS checksum error
> > > detecting floppy drive A media
> > > insert system disk and press enter.
> > 
> > Sounds like the sticker on your BIOS has come off ;)) I would try flashing
> > it with the latest version from Award, see what that does. If it works,
> > then dies again after a while, new BIOS chip time..

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