[dundee] BIOS update through linux

Jason Cormie Jason-lug at wormwood666.demon.co.uk
Mon May 21 12:31:32 BST 2007


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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