Actually, the autoupdater is supposed to work with LinuxBIOS too. But
you have to know how to make LinuxBIOS boot from a USB key. The way
to do that is to type the ESC key when you see the progress bar. That
will get you to a graphical menu. Use the arrow keys to select the
picture of a USB key, and it should boot the updater from the USB key.
The USB key will have to be formatted with an ext2 filesystem.
LinuxBIOS does not include FAT support.
One more thing:
Since you are using a ROM instead of SPI FLASH, the verify step at the
end of the firmware update process will report an error.
However, that error is not real. The erasing and writing parts of the
update process use a "back channel" to the SPI FLASH and will work
correctly, but the verify step just does a memory to memory compare, so
it will compare the RAM copy of the new firmware image to the data that
is in the PLCC ROM. That won't match.
If you then turn off the power, remove the PLCC ROM, and power back on,
everything should work.
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