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 1GOZvS-0004ZE-UV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:09:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8GD951i032657; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:09:06 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8GD2biY031892 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:02:38 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so3949531wxc for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:02:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bikr9Sn/uZi7jQLiDJ8LegMWSqk47Dhv0bWVdWn8mn5Sv7HCexlPBgUto8nMLfgP6XyCxWYPthO7qZyzQdiuBXgEC1FmND3Fr7AMzrv3W977ORcZrhmuPLfbTYJOYVCHy6kFfF1dNst5h9kazNQ3tUxqRPNy84uYtnAct5SNu0w= Received: by 10.70.78.8 with SMTP id a8mr16422109wxb; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.122.12 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <358eca8f0609160602k24c4f5cdr4009e110bf07791f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:02:23 +0100 From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS In-Reply-To: <200609131821.59790.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609121823g32524a67tb63effc6f97ac73e@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10609121952y318bfefdhc4bbff8d539767f8@mail.gmail.com> <200609122303.43336.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> <200609131821.59790.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 7a2880f4-3435-413e-8cee-37f90e833f0d X-Archives-Hash: 624be36943ca5b5847c0b260b4154bfa On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to write > > to. > > > > I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios somewhere. > A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted to. > > But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the dos-partition is > made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk. > > No floppy, no cry ;) What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list