I've flashed the bios from linux on an old compaq presario desktop
computer before, so I know it's possible, it was just so long ago I
can't remember what I used to do it or how I went about it.
Just googled "flash bios from linux" this brings up a heap of howto's
which might help
Kerry
Quoting Phill Coxon <[email protected]>:
I'm trying to figure out how to update the bios on an old Compaq
Presario that I'm using for FreeNAS (www.freenas.org).
Trouble is... the bios update utility from Compaq is Windows only.
Arrrgh.
I have managed to extra the bios image from by running the windows
installer in wine just far enough that it extracted the bios image file
into the temporary directory.
So now I have the bios image but I'm at a loss as to how exactly to burn
it and thought I'd ask those with greater knowledge on this list.
Is there a standard dos based bios flash utility I can use, or are bios
flash tools specific to each motherboard or bios manufacturer?
Any suggestions about how to proceed from here would be greatly
appreciated.
The computer is a Compaq Presario S6030AN
Phoenix - AwardBios (V3.05 currently)
Thanks!
