UPDATE BIOS 2.6.3

[Steve]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:18:47 +0100, axel <uraliin.asti at btinternet.com>  
wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 8,04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501
>
> Intermittently ...When I boot up (or try to), I get two bug messages:
>
>
> 1. MP_BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>
> 2. PCI: BIOS BUG #81 [49435000] found
>
>
> Sometimes, the booting up process completes anyway; sometimes it
> doesn't. When it doesn't, I get stopped at an initramfs prompt and can't
> get beyond that.
>
> I have updated GRUB ...and this seems to help i.e. the booting up
> process is completed.But the BUG message still appears in the start up
> sequence screens
> With no luck I have tried to find a "download" for a Dell/Linux BIOS ,
> so I can update my BIOS : the problem arises in that the available "BIOS
> downloads" are directed at "Windows Users": I had Windows
> Vista....chucked it out and loaded Ubuntu in its place. So now the
> problem really is that I cant find a "Ubuntu based BIOS UPDATE "
> Can you help
>
Easiest way I’ve found to do this is grab a FreeDOS Boot Disk from  
http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/

-- 
Steve (Yorvyk)
http://www.lubuntu.net