Re: running linux voids warranty?

From: J. Clarke (jclarke.usenet_at_snet.net.invalid)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:27:08 -0400

Poly-poly man wrote:

> Talking about B@@@SH@@ computer manufacturers, My HP Desktop is STUPID!
> The Bios blocks initrd and a few other things! Knoppix won't work, as
> won't Mandrake, Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, or even the OLD RedHats! The
> one version that works is RH9, which names those files differently.
> Someone told me that I can get a $250 bios update to allow linux to be
> used. Any Ideas?

Yeah, take some portion of that $250 and spend it on a case and motherboard
that will take your existing RAM, disks, processor, etc, and then toss the
remains of the HP in the dumpster.

> poly-p man 

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