Hi Lonnie, Its long ago, but it can be that dmidecode is also needed. Build it as well, just in case.
Sent from a mobile device. Michael Keuter > Am 28.03.2020 um 14:13 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>: > > > >> On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:05 AM, Dr. Peter Voigt <pvo...@uos.de> wrote: >> >> My AstLinux machine is a PC Engines APU1 and I would like to upgrade >> the strongly outdated Coreboot BIOS. >> >> Usualy, under Linux and FreeBSD there is a flash program called >> "flashrom" which can be used to flash the BIOS from the running >> Operating system (Linux or FreeBSD). E.g. for Debian and FreeBSD package >> information is available here: >> https://packages.debian.org/buster/flashrom >> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/flashrom/ >> >> Almost three years ago I successfully did the BIOS upgrade from a >> running pfSense. >> >> Does AstLinux as well provide flashrom to do this job? > > Hi Peter, > > flashrom is a package for custom builds, but we don't include it in the > standard builds. > > If you want, I could build and create a flashrom-1.1.tar.gz for you to use. > If yes, are you using the 64-bit genx86_64-serial image ? Let me know. > > But in general, if your BIOS is working it is usually best to leave as is. > > Lonnie > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
