On Friday 03 Dec 2004 14:18, Brian Richardson wrote: > Jim Higson wrote: > >I couldn't use a boot floppy because this machine has no floppy drive (I > > could get one as last resort) - is there such thing as a dos boot cd? > > There is no such thing as "the Linux way to reflash my BIOS". The flash > program is written for DOS. Ergo, you must run DOS to run the flash > program. I wouldn't do this from a DOS box in Linux, because the video > card is already in use. You _could_ transfer the boot floppy image to an > El Torito boot image and burn it to a CD, but probably easiest just to > put the floppy drive in for the 2 minutes it takes to do this video BIOS > upgrade. Thanks for the advice, I'll just borrow the floppy drive from some other computer - not too much fuss I suppose. Interestingly, the vendor provides a tool to do this from within WinXP (while the card is in use) so there's a small chance dosbox would work, probably not though and I'm not going to find out. It's a shame they provide their bioses as self installing executables for particular platforms. I wouldn't normally bother with this kind of upgrade, except the card shipped with faulty a bios.
