On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 15:22:39 +0200, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 08:01 -0500, George Hare wrote: > > Has anyone done any bios flashing using Fedora? My boot screen goes by > > so fast I can't read it; it looks like Alt-F2. Does it actually need > > it. Everything seems to be working just fine as is. It's an Abit KV8 > > Pro. > > Thanks, > > > > G. Hare > > > > 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%). While not a motherboard, there is a linux third party flash tool for NEC DVD drives. This was nice since the latest firmware for the drive from the manufacturer required windows xp to run their flash tool (and didn't work with their earlier dos based tools). This will weigh heavily in favor of getting a NEC drive when I buy another DVD burner.
