From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SJjU5-0004r1-8a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:48:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E47C1E0D09; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.stusta.mhn.de (mail.stusta.mhn.de [141.84.69.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81C7E0D60 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.150.48.178] (r048178.stusta.swh.mhn.de [10.150.48.178]) by mail.stusta.mhn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C4D1954C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:46:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F8BF8FD.5080301@stusta.mhn.de> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:48:29 +0200 From: Markus Kaindl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF3F4857B777D9039CC8B0511" X-Archives-Salt: e51ae63d-601b-4e7e-83dd-ca043c230515 X-Archives-Hash: 763332e5acb754df5dd5e4e12b565ff4 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF3F4857B777D9039CC8B0511 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive >=20 > Does anyone know how to do this? >=20 > - Grant >=20 --------------enigF3F4857B777D9039CC8B0511 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJPi/kGAAoJEKqyxEvMB/iloosP/Rrd1ghngKBrX7cyYdBarJHU xLF+GfY0O5+TihEP3rPylWKizlbNMKWX3oDxd8PpS0XA2s5GpzlAFFGrry23nB8s be5jolGMdB6A1NDeS+DEAAkg/YwE6GDoku5rJD43uhTXTfH0XxTPNecpHNA/zYJ1 yUKyrvaeyv9la+0hLrIEQ35J4xA4qtdQuIpjjgpKq373GhgDddhBwAxNUrn9Pomp QPcIRqKiadcfyZ6Z+kI8M+zpajZiKsfSJmUzvNJms0AQw/YJr8LEMaghSe+YDhVs EUOrX0n4sD4sQ7t0+SO1n9THK0GvqyY2l2sv7INYsQ6HyqxJo9OYWltKO6do+5ZQ VpYlrSxQZnQSjRpdrbA1vl/o15fMxc+Wj2vgyyaxKVb0lL2MfyGcHpk4tT5Bh+vz hvK7NXWDAZ17+2lhtlWWxN2oLwcqCFzezI7kC4c8h509yexU9KJK5E4VjAkaYCWV OJsce73UnYK4S/NqDqGicC2U5H8VU5pDl3X1Sr8C3zBPKFMKBxaC8+LYzrCn1kiB eSsMC3qwtg1+kD7QpUpH+0y1zd2F2z0Ae8p72LqYfPTkYVHW8oKxC3Z63K0thdPC hTNg2TJEF6l2eAKXYe0ty558CGeuq0SvyPl81etr+fLMOG9wTdJidwmnDmP2yBc7 5sPXEI+aNQPdWUZGLYeS =NKkD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF3F4857B777D9039CC8B0511--