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From: "Dirk Heinrichs" <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:59:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001192159.15448.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 49bf44f11001191123m59753c41n9e4c4dedd822ef77@mail.gmail.com

Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 20:23:53 schrieb Grant:
> >> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
> >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in
> >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
> >> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the
> >> utility via wine with no luck.
> >
> > Did you try the flashing utilities from the coreboot project?
> 
> I looked into that, but the only Biostar motherboard in their list of
> supported hardware is an old Pentium II/III:
> 
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

That's the list of supported boards for coreboot itself. I was talking about 
their flashrom tool (www.flashrom.org).

Bye...

	Dirk



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19 16:26 [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility Grant
2010-01-19 16:10 ` ubiquitous1980
2010-01-19 19:24   ` Grant
2010-01-19 18:23 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2010-01-19 19:23   ` Grant
2010-01-19 20:59     ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2010-01-19 22:58       ` Grant
2010-01-20 17:26         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2010-01-19 18:24 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-19 19:34   ` Grant
2010-01-19 20:27     ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-19 22:55       ` Grant
2010-01-20  0:57         ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-19 22:57     ` Stroller
2010-02-20 17:33       ` Grant
2010-01-19 22:52   ` Stroller
2010-01-20  0:55     ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-20 10:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-20 11:53   ` Xi Shen
2010-01-20 12:34     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-20 17:23     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2010-01-20 18:13     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-20 19:23       ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-20 20:19         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-20 21:39           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-20 22:40             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-21  7:36               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-21 13:20                 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-20 23:50         ` ubiquitous1980
2010-01-20 21:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-01-24 14:57   ` Grant

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