Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Richard]

Le vendredi 21 janvier 2005 à 05:43 -0500, nocturn a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> nocturn
> 

Plextor don't support firmware upgrades on GNU/Linux.
Last time I updated my recorder, I saw on Plextor website, the tool to
upgrade is a contrib.

Richard