BIOS updates in Linux?

Mon Jun 6 19:19:50 UTC 2011

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:18:47PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Most ASUS boards made in the last 10 or so years can flash themselves
> from USB.  Hit alt+F2 at the bios and it will boot a bios flasher.
> Some can even flash from CD.

The only thing you need on the USB key is a fat filesystem with the
properly named bios file in the root.  The bios filename it wants is
usually not what is in the zip file, but renaming it is easy.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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