BIOS upgrading
Marcel Janssen
korgull at home.nl
Fri Oct 26 18:06:51 UTC 2007
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
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