[Wizard] Re:Bios [was: Booting From USB]

[David Basden]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:04:45AM +0800, Mike Fineberg wrote:
> Where did you get the new BIOS from? One of the problems I have with the wizard is its slow POST time. Hopefully the new bios might address that a bit...
> - Michael

That's weird. Dragging Adrian's out here, the POST time is a couple of
seconds. What is it waiting on?

I'm really bright, and just dist-upgraded to debian testing, and
forgot to rerun LILO. Anyone wanna see a paperweight that boots
and says "LI"? Oh well, time to rip out the HDD again.

On the bright side, the XFree86 4.3 drivers seem to work, and
with VLC, I should be able to get it at least doing some rudimentary
video decoding (if I transcode it on a server first to something
not too CPU intensive). All I need to do is get PAL composite from
VGA. Anyone tried this?

David