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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:35:57
Message-Id: hj6t90$kai$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility by Xi Shen
1 On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
6 >>> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in
7 >>> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
8 >>> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
9 >>> utility via wine with no luck.
10 >>
11 >> Most motherboard vendors also offer a bootable ISO image that will flash the
12 >> BIOS automatically once booted from it. Did you check whether Biostar
13 >> offers this?
14 >
15 > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux.
16
17 Because most people use Windows so that vendors don't bother creating
18 Linux versions? :P