[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 96, Issue 10

[Christopher Fowler]

Thanks for the warning.  Any PC that requires a windoze program to
configure BIOS is a scary thing.  Surely there is a way to change boot
order on the fly.  What happens if your windoze partition is screwed and
you have to reload?

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:09 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, June 1 2006 13:41, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Thu June 1 2006 1:27 pm, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > > My kernel, running on Dapper:
> > >
> > > fd0man at fd0man-laptop:~$ uname -a
> > > Linux fd0man-laptop 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC
> > > 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> > > fd0man at fd0man-laptop:~$
> >
> > I'll probably put it on my Dell XPS laptop, when it finishes
> > downloading.... maybe not this weekend, as I leave tomorrow morning
> > for Ft. Lauderdale. Business, NOT pleasure.
> > gotta drive from Athens to Hartsfield for a 9:30 flight, aint THAT
> > gonna be fun!!!
> >
> 
> I can tell you that Kubuntu went on wonderfully on my Toshiba Satellite 
> A55-S1064.  The only downside is that this laptop does not have a setup 
> program within the BIOS, so in order to change BIOS settings, for the 
> moment, I need to have the Windows programs that do things and change the 
> boot order, enable/disable the trackpad thing, and so forth.  If I was 
> worth my weight in table salt as a systems programmer, I would reverse 
> engineer the provided tools and write equivalent tools for updating the 
> BIOS settings under Linux.
> 
> Maybe somebody will write something like that soon, if the laptop becomes 
> popular enough -- after all, I did buy this at Wally World.
> 
> 	- Mike
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