BIOS upgrading

[Marcel Janssen]

On Friday 26 October 2007, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> For Dell systems it is particularly trivial under linux:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
>
> firmware-tools and firmware-dell-addons are in the Fedora repos (yum
> install firmware*).
>
> There is also the biosdisk tool which automates creating a bootable
> dos image with the firmware added, and adding it to the bootloader
>
> http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml    (scroll down a bit to biosdisk).

That looks nice. I wish some mainboard supplier would supply something like 
this. Perhaps next time I should consider buying a dell instead of building 
my own machine. It certainly would have saved quite a bit of time today.

Thanks,
Marcel