BIOS updates in Linux?

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -
>

Ah, okay, so it doesn't have to be bootable.

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Thomas Milne
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