UPDATE BIOS 2.6.3

[hensandpat at earthlink.net]

axel wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>          Key ID = 3951B48D
>>     
>
> Point taken, 
> Thank you,
> Axel.
>   
>>
>>     
Karl, I have a grub 5 problem, which is that the hard drive is not 
recognized, it can't be fixed.? John