[ILUG] Motherboard Firmware Updates

[Kevin Philp]

>From what I remember of flashing the BIOS on my GA7-VAX there was an option to 
download an upgrade file, save it to floppy, reboot your machine and upgrade 
the BIOS from the BIOS... no need to use any operating system. Check the 
Gigabyte site and you might find there are two upgrade options: One via 
windows and one direct from the BIOS. It was extremely easy. One point I did 
notice however was that it did not seem to like upgrading across several 
updates at once and I ended up downloading a series of upgrades and upgrading 
one at a time to get to where I wanted to be.

Kevin.

On Monday 21 February 2005 15:49, Robert Synnott wrote:
>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.