Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Gilboa Davara]

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