Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Ian Malone]

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.

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imalone ♘