BIOS updates in Linux?

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:18:43PM -0400, Thomas Milne 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?
>
> 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.
>
>
Do I have to have the bootable USB drive attached when I try this? I tried
it a couple of times just now and it killed the display. I had to reboot to
get display back.

-- 
Thomas Milne
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