Giving up on Linux...

[Andy Green]

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On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:06, Michael Robinson 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?

There's an interesting story there for folks with laptops that lack a floppy 
AND lack Windows :-)

Thanks to a tip from a friend I found I was able to make a bootable CD with a 
Windows 98 emergency diskette image on it.  IIRC the trick was using mkisofs 
in El Torito mode (-b).  This boots into DOS, I can then swap out that boot 
CD with another CDR with the Dell BIOS update image in it, which can run from 
DOS.

- -Andy

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