[ILUG] Motherboard Firmware Updates

[Robert Synnott]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:44:25 +0000, Tony Vroon <tony at vroon.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 15:38 +0000, Robert Synnott wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone know of a way to apply Gigabyte motherboard BIOS updates
> > through Linux? The company supplies Windows updaters, but I have no
> > interest in installing Windows on this machine just to flash the BIOS.
> > Rob.
> 
> *  sys-apps/biosdisk
>       Latest version available: 0.65
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 133 kB
>       Homepage:    http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk
>       Description: A script that creates floppy boot images to flash
> Dell BIOSes
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> This should be of use to you, I used the same software to flash my Asus
> BIOS. At times you have to modify the script a bit. It works with the
> "memdisk" image that comes with syslinux.
> 
> Tony.
> 
> 
Ah, interesting. Those exes supplied are DOS then? I'd assumed they
were Windows....
Thanks
Rob.