Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA.  I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 12:53:23 schrieb Xi Shen: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. Who says we don't? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. -- Neil Bothwick If man ruled the world: Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff? /facetious reply Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:19:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff? /facetious reply Don't tell my motherboard that or it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code somewhere that might not be in .exe or ELF format) how does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code