BIOS updates in Linux?

[Thomas Milne]

Hey, that looks very cool, thanks! The update that I got from Asus had a
.rom file in it as well as the .exe. I would assume that is the file I
need.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:24 PM, aaron d <instantkamera-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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Thomas Milne
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