[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:40:52AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > 	- flashable hardware is still flashable.  Sure, some of them
> > > 	  have worked around their issues, but does it make sense to
> > > 	  assume they all have?  Nope.
> > 
> > re-flashing is like fsck'ing.  IT IS NOT DESTRUCTIBLE.
> 
> I don't think I've ever heard anyone make this claim before.  Every
> re-flashing guide I've ever read has warned that if power is interrupted
> during the re-flashing process you will either have a very expensive
> paper weight or you will have to return the unit to the factory.  I
> don't do a lot of re-flashing, so I don't know; maybe newer hardware can
> recover from a corrupt flash attempt, but I wouldn't assume that any
> hardware could.  

IBM tells me they can re-flash mine by 11am tomorrow.  How is that
destructible and permanent, and what data is lost, some BIOS settings?
Oh brother.

> I know for a fact that my Rio Volt can't.

err..... Desktops/laptops was/is the focus.  ;-)

-Jim P.