Update BIOS on Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Mark Reis wrote:
> A 3rd option is just to make a bootable CD image out of the BIOS flash 
> floppy. This works quiet well every time I've used it on systems w/o a 
> floppy drive.

And the BIOS knows to go to the CD?

Or are you thinking of a bootable floppy?
That's 100 percent *different*.

We're talking about BIOSes that load the update directly from the 
floppy, the floppy itself does not boot.


> 
> -Mark
> 
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 
>> Actually, the floppy option is nice.
>> If they ever offer a load via El'Torito, that will take care of CDs too.
>> 
>> Most (real-hardware) RAID storage vendors now offer a Linux-based 
>> firmware load.
>> I suspect the BIOS vendors won't be far behind.
> 
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