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...<br><br>...And yet people still sell/build machines without floppy drives!
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Cormie</b> <<a href="mailto:Jason-lug@wormwood666.demon.co.uk">Jason-lug@wormwood666.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've used HPs Insight Manager to flash firmware under Redhat on Proliant boxes<br>previously, but hadn't seen anything for doing more generic hardware under linux.<br>Now I can get rid of my 10 year old collection of DOS boot disks :-)
<br><br>James Le Cuirot wrote:<br>> I used Dell's own tools to upgrade mine. They included a whole bunch of<br>> stuff I didn't need and took me ages to figure out but it's more than<br>> most vendors do, I suppose.
<br>><br>> On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:32:00 +0100<br>> Jason Cormie <<a href="mailto:Jason-lug@wormwood666.demon.co.uk">Jason-lug@wormwood666.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Don't know if this one is common knowledge.
<br>>> I just used "flashrom" to upgrade my BIOS, without needing to boot<br>>> into DOS/windows.<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list
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