BIOS updates in Linux?

[aaron d]

Could try "flashrom" if you can actually get the actual binary files you
need to update.

A lot of mobo makers (like my Gigabyte) package their BIOS files in
self-extracting exes. Some of these happen to just be zipped/7zipped and can
be extracted with those tool despite what the file extension would have you
believe. Alternatively, you could try the windows tools in wine.

-aaron

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms, but I can't find anything on
> updating an Asus mobo BIOS from Linux. On the Asus site, they did have Linux
> listed in the menu for update files, but when I download the BIOS update
> from their link, it is an MS executable file. None of my machines have a
> floppy drive, so I can't boot from an MSDOS disk, even if I had one. How do
> people normally handle this?
>
> --
> Thomas Milne
>
>
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