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| DATE | 2004-08-02 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
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Whatever a Brio might be the fact of the matter is that I have spent the last
two weeks trying to install 9.1 on this box with some success. But not
enough where I can walk away from this machine and be able to do 'tech
support' over the phone if I have to.
I had 8.2 Pro on this before until I decided to install 9.1, thats when
everything fell through the bottom.
The thing is that this problem doesnt seem to be isolated to the Brio. There
is an AMD on another table that I used to install 9.1. With similar
difficulty, in fact that was the only way I could get a completely installed
distro transfered to the Brio. I installed it through the AMD and transfered
the HD to the Brio. But the AMD also had a few moments of hesitation
with 'decompression error' and 'locked inode'. I had to reboot that machine
once or twice to get 9.1 to install. When I transfered the HD to the Brio I
get the 'locked inode' error again. The gui gives me all sorts of users to
choose from in the login screen for logging in (postfix, bin, ftp, etc-etc).
Sadly, w2k (re)installs on the Brio with far less difficulty.
I ask about viruses because I ran an anti virus and w2k did a memory dump and
rebooted. Afterwards I couldnt boot back in. Luckily there is another HD
available to me so no data was lost in this experiment.
In any event, this is the hardware available to me at this point I cant do
much about it right now. It would go a long way if I can get this install to
work.
The fact that the weather is dry here is not lost on me and the chance of
these machines suffering from ESD is not remote.
Steve M
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:39:16 -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote
> Brios are crap that is why youre having problems. a BIOS virus is
> possible but rare and machine specific I doubt it. I have personaly
> only heared stories about bios viruses ive never seen one and even
> then the stories took place in the early 80s, always started with
> "my cousins fathers brothers friend had this happen once", and it
> was deliberatly planted in the computer they effected by a
> disgrunteled programer and even calling them a virus was debatable
> because they didnt replicate. it never made any sence to create such
> a thing in the first place esspecialy now that PC's are so cheep.
> its much more probible the hardware is broken or just bad in the
> first place. Im not saying a BIOS virus is imposible because it is,
> but its also the most improbible cause of the problem. it is soo
> improbible I would never consider it as a posible cause of any problem.
> "Steve Milo" wrote ..
> >
> > Is it possible to get a virus on a BIOS through W2K that affects everthing
> > you do on the system?
> >
> > I tried installing Suse 9.1, I removed all the hard drives installed one
> > seperate hd. Wiped it clean, and when I tried to install 9.1 it hung,
> > numerous times. I checked the log screen and there was either an error
> > decompressing or an inode was locked and couldnt be written to or read
> > from.
> >
> > This machine is a Celeron with 256m of memory, hd is 6gb, it is an HP Brio
> > with Pheonix BIOS. I have tried a basic install and a minimal install.
> > I
> > tried installing with safe mode (nodma, acpi-off, apm-off then with dma,
> > acpi-
> > off, apm on).
> > I also reset the BIOS a few times.
> >
> > The manual says I should set system BIOS shadowing to off. There is no
> > setting for that in this thing.
> >
> > Steve M
> >
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