Dear All
OK, and thanks to all. I have now read the Dell website about updating
from within Linux and noted the fact that I should use FreeDOS base 1.0
etc. I should just say this laptop is about 11 years old and the F12
boot option does not include updating the BIOS. What come as a surprise
is that Dell say I can use this file in Windows and it does not work,
and further that this fact does not surprise some. It surprised me.
But that is experience and experience is what I want to gain.
Although the upgrade will not give me Virtualisation, I have another
reason for continuing with upgrading the BIOS. It provides better
support for the battery. So it seems to me that although Windows 7 is
on the laptop the issue remains, how to upgrade the BIOS using my 64 GB
memory stick, FreeDOS and other things. I was put off by the fact that
something special had to be done to make the BIOS upgrade file available
after the boot to FreeDOS. I was comfortable with booting FreeDOS from
a CD/DVD and just wanted to put the memory stick in, navigate to it and
run the file, but that was not to be.
We are, I suggest, still in business and that the objective has not
changed, just the circumstances, the laptop has Windows 7 on it. I want
to prepare the memory stick using my PC with Windows 10 on it, insert
the stick into the laptop, boot the laptop and then obey any instructions.
Is this feasible?
I have already downloaded Unetbootin and I have the BIOS update file,
the size of which is 1950KB, and the version of FreeDOS in file:
fdbasecd.iso found here:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
Wait to hear
Stephanos
On 10/04/2021 10:00, Mateusz Viste wrote:
On 09/04/2021 23:50, Stephanos wrote:
So I decided that it was slightly easier to put back Windows 7.
I used gparted to wipe the HDD (...)
I booted into the BIOS and the version was the same A02.
I rebooted back into Windows 7
You should have done like Liam tells you from the beginning. He provides
correct, detailed and verified steps. The operation is as simple as
booting DOS from a removable drive (CD/floppy/USB) to run a single
executable... Any other method is likely to either not work or damage
your PC (esp. if you follow what Michael C. Robinson has been
suggesting). Using Windows to update a BIOS firmware looks perhaps like
an easy way out, but I wouldn't risk my PC with it myself, even if it's
one of the methods suggested by the motherboard producer.
Mateusz
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