Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Martin Alderson]

I agree entirely. This is a fantastic way of getting round a
significant hurdle in Linux. Just think of the amount of times people
will of installed Linux and used it a lot, installed some more RAM (or
whatever), realised the system was unstable. Searched the web and
found out that the BIOS needed upgraded. Finds only an exe file.

Decides that they really would like to have their new RAM working, so
they install Windows. Windows of course nukes the Linux bootloader.
They decide that they'll 'repair linux later' and never get round to
it.


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:40:47 -0500, lee_connell <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> ""this is stupid i don't what dos on my system, maybe add this to the
> livedvd ?""
> 
> this is not stupid at all, and what's the problem with having a
> freedos.img on your system so you can if you want to boot into dos to
> flash your system.
> 
> Otherwise you'll have to manually set this capability up yourself or
> require having windows on your system.
> 
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