[mythtv-users] The $99 frontend is here. Is this too good to be true?
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 14:03:30 UTC 2009
> FYI, mine arrived yesterday. Haven't tried to get Myth running on
> it yet, but here are two things I noticed:
>
> 1. The BIOS had a password. The BIOS comes from Award. I tried all
> of the backdoor passwords listed here
> http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml but none
> worked. I managed to boot into Linux anyhow and then I ran this
> cmospwd utility http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd which told
> me the password was "realityi" (which indeed worked).
>
> 2. I haven't been able to get Linux (Fedora Core 10) to recognize
> the CompactFlash drive. The BIOS recognizes the CF and starts
> booting from it, but then once Linux is actually running it
> complains that it can't find the boot device, and booting halts.
> When I boot from USB, I haven't been able to get Linux to
> recognize the CF drive. I'll keep poking at it (any ideas?), but
> for now I'm just booting from USB.
>
Does it look used? I mean scratches ...
John
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