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From: Erik <mistereastenstream@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:13:53
Message-Id: 4df051c10609161408h2952b64r87a1927a61e591ae@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS by Rumen Yotov
1 My bios allows me to use a usb thumb drive, but I don't know how common that is.
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4 On 9/16/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote:
5 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
6 > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote:
7 > >> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
8 > > wrote:
9 > >>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
10 > >>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to
11 > >>>> write to.
12 > >>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios
13 > >>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted
14 > >>> to.
15 > >>>
16 > >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the
17 > >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk.
18 > >>>
19 > >>> No floppy, no cry ;)
20 > >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic
21 > >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables?
22 > >
23 > > good luck, boy.
24 > >
25 > > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files.
26 > >
27 > > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very
28 > > well
29 > Hi,
30 > Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe).
31 > Rumen
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