Re: Giving up on Linux...

Bill Gradwohl wrote:

Can you flash a BIOS within Linux? Aren't all of the vendors flash BIOS utilities only for Windows? Or can you use some sort of bootdisk with the flash utility on it?

I have a DOS floppy I use to boot boxes for flashing purposes. If a vendor
were to try to force me to use Windows, he would get $0.00 of my business.

ASUS is the largest main board maker in the world. They provide a BIOS
upgrade utility that runs under DOS for every main board we've ever gotten
from them. I add the flash utility and the actual BIOS flash file to the
floppy and run the flash utility after a clean reboot. That's it.

I second this. I have flashed several types of mobos. Asus, Soyo, MSI, Giabyte, and others.
Always by booting with a dos floppy then flashing . I don't recall any that can be flashed when the full OS is running. Some of the manufacturers distribute the bios flash as a self booting/flash floppy so you don't even need the extra disk.