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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:05:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609130405.28012.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10609121823g32524a67tb63effc6f97ac73e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 03:23, Grant wrote:
> How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version?  Are you all digging
> up floppy drives?
>
> - Grant

no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all the bios stuff onto 
it, boot from a freedos cd and flash the bios/firmware.

If I touch a floppy drive, it dies. And flashing with a freedos cd works very 
well.
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-13  1:23 [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Grant
2006-09-13  2:05 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
     [not found]   ` <49bf44f10609121952y318bfefdhc4bbff8d539767f8@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-13  3:03     ` Brett I. Holcomb
2006-09-13 16:21       ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-09-16 13:02         ` Mick
2006-09-16 15:19           ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-09-16 19:36             ` Rumen Yotov
2006-09-16 21:08               ` Erik
2006-09-16 22:12               ` Mick
2006-09-17  5:33                 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-09-17  9:03                   ` Mick
2006-09-26 12:32                     ` Matteo Pillon
2006-09-26 14:35                   ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-09-16 21:50           ` Friedrich Göpel
2006-09-16 22:34             ` Mick

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