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Meeting Minutes
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Objective 1.101.1 Configure Fundamental BIOS Settings
All right, if we look at LPI's description of this objective, we get this:Description: Candidates should be able to configure fundamental system hardware by making the correct settings in the system BIOS. This objective includes a proper understanding of BIOS configuration issues such as the use of LBA on IDE hard disks larger than 1024 cylinders, enabling or disabling integrated peripherals, as well as configuring systems with (or without) external peripherals such as keyboards. It also includes the correct setting for IRQ, DMA and I/O addresses for all BIOS administrated ports and settings for error handling.Specific topics here include the following:
- Configure Fundamental BIOS Settings
- Configure Modem and Sound cards
- Setup SCSI Devices
- Setup different PC expansion cards
- Configure Communications Devices
- Configure USB devices
Configure Fundamental BIOS Settings
Configure Modem and Sound cards
- Modem HOWTO
- Sound HOWTO
- The man pages for sndconfig, isapnp, setserial, and pppd.
- You also want to familiarize yourself with the files and directories
found in the /proc psuedo-filesystems, especially:
- /proc/ioports
- /proc/interrupts
- /proc/dma
- /proc/pci
Setup SCSI Devices
- The SCSI-2.4 HOWTO
- BIOS Boot order preferences
Setup different PC expansion cards
Configure Communications Devices
- The DSL HowTo, Section 3 (although it won't hurt you to read the whole thing)
Configure USB devices As always, if you have specific requests for information, post them to our forums. We might be able to direct you to an answer, and in any case, it tells us where we need to beef up the tutorial.