Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

nocturn dlist at ubuntuforums.org
Fri Jan 21 04:43:46 CST 2005


Shimon Wrote: 
> i still do not understand why it is windows/dos based why don't
> motherboard makers just offer roms for the bios and provide the user
> with a few tools to flash it with (not that they have to make those
> tools them self)
> 

Because the assume you are running windows...  This will improve as
Linux gains a bigger share of the market.

Currently the only vendor that has support for flashing devices is
Plextor.

That said, I have always been able to use FreeDOS to flash my devices.


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