On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 16:13 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > John Summerfied wrote: > > > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > >> I doubt it. I've yet to see a Linux flash utility. (Being tied to a > >> certain BIOS/MB combo, I doubt that we will ever see one) > >> Most flash utilities either use DOS (99%) or both Windows and DOS (~1%). > >> > >> Gilboa > >> > > I've got one or to mobos that can read direcly from floppy. (I'm not > > sure they actually have floppy drives attached, several of my machines > > haven't). > > > > Sometimes (often?) freedos will do the job; I think Dell and/or HP > > uses Freedos regardless of what their actual instructions say. > > > AOL: my last two Gigabyte MBs have been able to update the bios directly > from > a file on a floppy without Win / DOS (and save the current bios directly > too). One > of the reasons my next MB will be a Gigabyte. > > -- > imalone ♘ > HUH? I just updated my new K8NS BIOS and it requires the same old (Free)DOS boot. They just help you by giving you a default autoexec.bat file, saving you the need to remember the flash command line options. (And BIOS image name). Gilboa
