[OLPC-devel] how to update bios to linuxbios

[Ronald G Minnich]

Chris Ball wrote:
>>>On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:02:00, Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com> said:
> 
> 
>    > The Fedora installation procedure described above wants to install
>    > to a USB hard disk.  I don't know if a USB flash device would be
>    > big enough.
> 
> I'd expect a 2G flash drive to be sufficient, providing you do an expert
> install and deselect openoffice/development tools/etc.
> 
>    > I was unable to use PuppyLinux to reflash the SST FLASH part,
>    > because the procedure requires you to set the MSR register to a
>    > specific value.  PuppyLinux lacks the special file
>    > "/dev/cpu/0/msr", so the "wrmsr" program won't work.
> 
> The msr module is responsible for providing that file; `modprobe msr`
> should bring it up if you have the module available.

yes. I tend to build this one in, not as a module. It's too useful.
ron