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 1SJjkT-0007v5-8Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:05:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3609E0CCC; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7D9E0B57 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so1199854eek.40 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:03:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=dk1pED81iPnzzP9umdRN55pA/x531SU/iRV9LLkbWcA=; b=BUFYTIUwws2j+HQ8H2XDRIH8Ikx0G7guOWwWSucBRFzzrsRXQn4qtxA7XxGlSpqWj2 EOAbgzaEqaSCUGIpAY6/68xXLHMt3NhikiBssBNx9qkLoACc1zAqEXlwTtwLnriMmM4C JHY8fvZYmWZnObAlkcR2/ktNXelWSTNXce+h4BXIdBISPkViHUyrFKKJKmTUZvFzDCaW rsGhyDzCNqMPROWRKHr2alJkyzhRXxjY95St4P2x3EYqlwuXeMiO4kgNMNMDaOVBYCSH LSA4GLkKsFNE9Xwl5Y3BIgarl2CtMwS2NlzP9C2Zu7GE3x3EbSt/f9gSMGqjq0nUlKru 2HdA== 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 Received: by 10.213.20.18 with SMTP id d18mr796646ebb.28.1334574227734; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.32.70 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:03:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:03:47 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 7b4ed828-182f-48f3-957a-4589f1092c57 X-Archives-Hash: 58fe61cd632b195efe77706f9f241e80 > flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it > already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use > flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in > there so it can see your chip(s). > > The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you might have some > luck trying to uncompress it with 7z or xz. I read that flashrom can't use an executable directly and unzip didn't work so I didn't seriously consider it. I didn't try 7z or xz though. I did finally get it to work with unetbootin though. This would actually probably work too: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive My problem was that I was trying to change to the C drive like this: cd c: instead of like this: c: :) - Grant