Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/1/22, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com>:
> 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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seems to be a gigabyte feature ;) i got a gigabyte socket 939 board
with the same options. pretty nice to be able to flash bios without
dos screwery ;)