From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOi9g-0008M1-Mp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:56:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8GLtwav005665; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:55:59 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8GLoPGf030732 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:50:25 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so3210236nfa for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:50:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=XD66/p0C0fXtI1ntbCj4fx5muEI1FklbOgb8oIKzWwg7KJUXubvq0vDwFO4GA6SNa3ns/I+2g/67hZme8Yp7QjhZaT4IYMEhSTSb9rdFvNRDicTeQdQKDLnAzwue+bRmneYmrRFJizS1Z8alyyQCgQBkc8AmyE7hozutHUFXxvA= Received: by 10.48.210.16 with SMTP id i16mr15057791nfg; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [81.103.215.107]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id p20sm3220402nfc.2006.09.16.14.50.23; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:50:20 +0100 From: Friedrich =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=F6pel?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Message-ID: <20060916215020.GC31246@localhost.ntlworld.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <49bf44f10609121823g32524a67tb63effc6f97ac73e@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10609121952y318bfefdhc4bbff8d539767f8@mail.gmail.com> <200609122303.43336.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> <200609131821.59790.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <358eca8f0609160602k24c4f5cdr4009e110bf07791f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <358eca8f0609160602k24c4f5cdr4009e110bf07791f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k8GLtwbB005665 X-Archives-Salt: be4c16b1-d494-436d-90a1-db5542b4c9a3 X-Archives-Hash: b7db9261bad54da1df859e3d969622a6 On 14:02 Sat 16 Sep , Mick wrote: > On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin =20 > wrote: > What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic > manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? I had that problem with my burner because for some reason the dos tools flat out refused to work, so I slapped the windows exe on a Windows PE (=3DPreinstallation Enviroment) Iso burned it and booted from that. That's basically a Windows LiveCD, except it takes half an hour to boot and there's no applications. It is a sucky solution, but not as much as having to actually install windows/swap out the hardware. > --=20 > Regards, > Mick > --=20 Cheers, Friedrich G=F6pel --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list