Since a corrupt BIOS can potentially cause a PC to become completely unbootable, I would recommend checking with the motherboard manufacturer on if they have a feature like Asus' "CrashFree" BIOS which allows recovery from a ROM copy of the BIOS or if there is a jumper you can short to acheive the same effect. If not, during the few seconds it takes the DOS utility to flash the BIOS, your computer is quite vulnerable to power outages. I had a Tyan Titan Turbo AT-2 several years back (on which I had Slackware Linux) and I seem to recall several occasions of "flash n' pray" as it would have been a long wait to order a replacement BIOS chip from them.
----- Original Message ---- From: Blues Renegade <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, January 27, 2010 8:30:48 AM Subject: Re: [lug:15866] Upgrading BIOS with linux : FreeDOS ? I forgot to mention. There are programs available to backup your existing BIOS, in case the upgrade screws it up. Google and you should find some help in this regard. John Aka wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have to upgrade a BIOS on my comuter, I have an old motherboard : > > TYAN Tiger K8W (S2875). > > If I have good understood, I have to : > > 1. Start my computer with the freeDOS CD : is 'fdbasecd' enough ? > 2. Run the .bat file for the BIOS upgrade. Tyan gives, for my > motherboard : > > a...@debian:~/install/bios/S2875_v304$ ls -l > total 632 > -rw-r--r-- 1 524288 2007-08-08 11:23 2875V304.ROM > -r--r--r-- 1 103856 2005-08-16 18:00 AFUDOS.EXE > -rw-r--r-- 1 44 2007-08-13 13:42 flash.bat > -rw-r--r-- 1 506 2003-03-18 10:01 Flash Text.txt > > Is it all ok, like this, please ? > > Did I have forget something ? > > Thanks, > > Amka > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
