[dundee] BIOS update through linux

[Paul Lancaster]

Lee Turner wrote:
> 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!
I can afford the drive but have you seen the price of a blank floppy - 
you'd be cheaper getting them on prescription :)
DVD-R 4.5GB @ 16p each, HD floppy 1.44MB - 1.76MB for Amiga users 50p 
each, go figure.

Paul


>
> On 21/05/07, *Jason Cormie* <Jason-lug at wormwood666.demon.co.uk 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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