From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 21 1:27:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B1E37B403 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f8L8bUa29011 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:37:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:37:30 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: To: Subject: oh bugger. i ate my bios. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org so, wishing to ascertain if cardbus was gonna work on my hp800ct, i decided to flash the bios to the version that hp reccommended. dire warnings where listed about not interrupting the process, which is eminently reasonable.... so, i rebooted my desktop box to windows and wrote out the floppy and hooked up the floppy drive to the laptop and rebooted and started process. it chugged merrily along. having had no further need to spend time in dosland, i rebooted the desktop box back to freebsd so that i could get back to fiddling with it via laplink cable ( cause i have no other net because cardbus isnt supported i 4.3, remember :-) ) well. by crikey, as my desktop box rebooted itself it sent happy electronic facts down the laplink cable and that was enuf to hang the reflashing. 'bout midway thru. wish i had disconnected it. wish those systemsoft people (the folks that did the bios for the 800ct) had considered that as a possible problem and either coded around it. so, now i can here the hd spinning away quietly. it doesnt ever stop, and of course, there is no keyboard response or display or even dasblinkinlichts. it's lost all higher functions. so, has anybody recovered from this sort of screwup previously? anybody have any suggestions whatsoever? at least i wasnt into it for too much..... -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message