Hello, I'm a new member of the mailing list too, until now i was only a passive reader.
I have a suggestion. You can use grub to boot a floppy disk image with the flasher and bios. (and flash it). Here is how http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Boot_Floppydisk_Image_without_Floppy_using_GRUB Good luck! ____________ Frederico Silva Shocky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to LinuxBios, and just looking for a way to flash the bios on an HP > laptop without installing Windoze. None of the tricks I've found through > Google have worked for me so far, including HP's own utility for making > bootable usb keys. > > I'm trying to compile just the flashrom component of LinuxBios from svn, but > make gives me an error telling me that I need to install pciutils-devel and > zlib-devel. The problem is these packages are already installed. > > I extracted the little .test.c program from the Makefile, and determined that > the linker is unable to resolve the call to pci_alloc. The problem is I don't > know why. The header is there in /usr/include/pci/pci.h, > and /usr/lib/libpci.a is there (but I don't know how to tell what symbols the > library provides; reached the limit of my expertise there). > > This happens on two different machines, one running Mandriva 2008.0 (the > laptop in question), and the other Mandriva 2007.0 (my desktop pc). Any ideas > what's going on and how to resolve it? > > Shocky > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
