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Re: [LUG] BIOS upgrade

 

On Friday 01 May 2009 11:37, Rob Beard wrote:
> 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).
They're cheaper than floppies - I've just blown about£2.20 worth of floppies 
cos nothing seems to write safely to my floppy drives anymore ! Cant seem to 
write the boot sector properly - everything else works......
Will give this a spin!
Tom te tom te tom


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