UPDATE BIOS 2.6.3

[axel]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:04 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 02:18 AM, axel 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
> >
> >    
>          Yes. A BIOS update comes from the mother board maker, not 
> Windows or Ubuntu. Try that for a BIOS update. I have never updated a BIOS.
> 
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> 
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> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
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Point taken, 
Thank you,
Axel.
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