Hi,

did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade

Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).

Markus

Grant schrieb:
> I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to
> update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends.  The
> root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too
> large for the available 1.44MB DOS boot disks.  Apparently FreeDOS had
> a LiveCD available at some point but it has reportedly been
> unavailable for quite some time.
> 
> The following method looks promising but it also doesn't work.  DOS
> can't seem to execute the .exe file which sits outside of the boot
> image:
> 
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?
> 
> - Grant
>