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Re: [LUG] BIOS upgrade

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade the bios on an old asus board and it seems to require an 
> old dos boot disk! Anyone know how to make one in this day and age??
> Tom te tom te tom
>   
This might help...

http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html

It guides you through downloading a FreeDOS disk image which you can 
mount as a loopback image and then if you haven't got a floppy drive you 
can create a bootable CD image to burn to CD (I guess a CDRW would be 
handy for this, seems a bit of a waste of a CD-R just for a single use).

Rob


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