[gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Markus Kaindl
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
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 Sometimes it just doesn't pay to *not* come to the list *first*. I did get it working with unetbootin as mentioned in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
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 Now that I look more closely at that page, I've got to cast a vote for going the unetbootin way. It's really easy and

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 April 2012 11:48, Markus Kaindl markus.kai...@stusta.mhn.de wrote: 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 Please link people to the maintained version