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 1GOhU1-00047I-BG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:13:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8GLDDv2029923; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:13:13 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8GL8Tgb014978 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:08:30 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so3646124pyd for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:08:29 -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=cSoNGpNkQfb6l2CIdIxmjaoV3y9MZi2UI551kjD+yF/HTRPjWu5M5Fib4qzALeLX1VesWtcLrFr6ufyCn8cBlWwK7v9uXxtEBLQt8gUiu/cKLQeQepzK8ZtU+T+BZHWYpvUqSNFjiuS/hqnOoqai9Gb1fqVBn3po6tPRp3thPJI= Received: by 10.65.151.6 with SMTP id d6mr10894365qbo; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.215.14 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4df051c10609161408h2952b64r87a1927a61e591ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:08:28 -0400 From: Erik To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS In-Reply-To: <450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org> 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> <200609131821.59790.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <358eca8f0609160602k24c4f5cdr4009e110bf07791f@mail.gmail.com> <200609161719.52679.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5129eac3-6973-4642-97b1-43bd4137078c X-Archives-Hash: 6b264e6424253182612e37f3cb2c817c My bios allows me to use a usb thumb drive, but I don't know how common that is. On 9/16/06, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote: > >> 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? > > > > good luck, boy. > > > > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files. > > > > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very > > well > Hi, > Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe). > Rumen > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Erik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list