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as everyone deserves to know when things go wrong: i'm trying to flash the bios on my IBM T20 laptop. i've got a floppy image, and am attempting to use memdisk with grub to boot it via the following: title Flash T20 Bios root (hd0,0) kernel /memdisk root=/dev/md0 initrd /T20_flash_floppy.img that much WORKS. the interesting part is that the system becomes unresponsive RIGHT AFTER putting up the big "do not reboot" warning, and saying it may take 1 minute to flash. i waited two hours, capslock and scroll lock were both functioning. finally, i gave up and power cycled th...