[dundee] BIOS update through linux

[Lee Turner]

On most modern motherboards, if you stuff up a bios flash, you can just turn
your computer on, with the bios image loaded onto a floppy and it'll load
the bios in off that...

...And yet people still sell/build machines without floppy drives!

On 21/05/07, Jason Cormie <Jason-lug at wormwood666.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I've used HPs Insight Manager to flash firmware under Redhat on Proliant
> boxes
> previously,  but hadn't seen anything for doing more generic hardware
> under linux.
> Now I can get rid of my 10 year old collection of DOS boot disks :-)
>
> James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > I used Dell's own tools to upgrade mine. They included a whole bunch of
> > stuff I didn't need and took me ages to figure out but it's more than
> > most vendors do, I suppose.
> >
> > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:32:00 +0100
> > Jason Cormie <Jason-lug at wormwood666.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Don't know if this one is common knowledge.
> >> I just used "flashrom" to upgrade my BIOS, without needing to boot
> >> into DOS/windows.
>
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