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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:42:08
Message-Id: 450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS by "Hemmann
1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote:
3 >> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
4 > wrote:
5 >>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
6 >>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to
7 >>>> write to.
8 >>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios
9 >>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted
10 >>> to.
11 >>>
12 >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the
13 >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk.
14 >>>
15 >>> No floppy, no cry ;)
16 >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic
17 >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables?
18 >
19 > good luck, boy.
20 >
21 > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files.
22 >
23 > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very
24 > well
25 Hi,
26 Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe).
27 Rumen
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Erik <mistereastenstream@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>