Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 17 15:39:39 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit :
> > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy
> > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can
> > accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the
> > procedure.
>
> Look there:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/
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>
> As I understand the procedure:
>
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
>
> then:
>
> yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
> yum install -y $(bootstrap_firmware)
>
> update_firmware --yes
>
>
> Let us know the result.
Wall the process worked like a charm. The BIOS was upgraded from A03 to
A11. But the change I wanted did not appear. I want to be able to turn
on hyper-threading and A11 (as well as A)#) does not allow this. But I
am glad to know this procedural since it works so well. Thanks
>
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