Re: Crashing hard on mkfs


Jaap Schellekens (schj@geo.vu.nl)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:35:09 +0200


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> Not sure how well that will work...this is an evaluation(PC164)
> system. Is it really encouraged to go out and get the latest BIOS
> version? I really don't want to break anything, and the last time I
> saw someone upgrade the BIOS of a DEC alpha, it caused major, major
> problems....of course, that was with DEC OSF/1...

I never had any problems. Just make sure that the
floppy from which the bios is updated is good.
A faulty floppy can probably interrupt the process.

Jaap

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