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current bios for ubntu 7.04

Asked by ihemp

June 8 2007
While installing Ubuntu 7.04 on a hp omnibook xe2 a message stating the bios is from 1999 and needs to be from 2000 appeared....after that the machine continued to read from the install cd for a few minutes and then the machine stayed with a blank screen untill I held the power button down to turn it off.

Where do I find a current bios to instal so I can install Ubuntu on this machine?

Thank you for your time.

Ryan

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Try here:

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Lookup?h_lang=en&h_cc=us&cc=us&h_page=hpcom&lang=en&h_client=S-A-R163-1&h_pagetype=s-002&h_query=omnibook+xe2&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

You have to specify your model (DB to DI) and the OS you have currently installed.

Note that the two problems are not related. The message about the year should be this:

ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACP

This is telling you that your BIOS is dated 1999, therefore ACPI support is disabled since older BIOSes might not support or not support it well. The CD then proceed until it stumble against another problem (maybe a video configuration).

You can see more details by pressing ALT-F1 during boot.

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TXPoloPolo (marco-a-fehlbaum) said : 		#2

Cesare,

I have the same issue with my Omnibook 500 (pre-2000 BIOS). Is there a way to tell Ubuntu 7.10 to disable the ACPI check so it doesn't bother testing the computer and then displaying the message? I'm sure that this would shave a few precious seconds off of the boot time for our aging "museum piece" laptops ;-)

-Marco
(Dallas)

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