Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Alan Harper]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:34:47PM +0200, Ilkka Tuohela wrote:
> su, 2005-01-23 kello 22:55 +1000, Alan Harper kirjoitti:
> > > 
> > > This works just nicely. I would like IBM to make the task easier, they
> > > should really deliver bootable el torito CD-images for the boot disks,
> > > preferably as 2.88MB image so that you have embedded BIOS upgrade and
> > > the BIOS upgrade itself on same disk... but this wish has nothing to do
> > > with ubuntu ;)
> > > 
> > >     *hile*
> > Which IBM machines are these? I used to download an .iso which 
> > contained a floppy image, and had this on a cd using isolinux so I 
> > could boot multiple floppy images, was much more convinient than 
> > carrying a bunch of floppies.
> 
> I have T41, and yeah, making isolinux image with different boot images
> sounds like good idea as well... it would be like 4MB download from IBM
> and you would get both embedded controller and BIOS disks in same
> package. 
> 
> Anyway, I fully support making flashing better supported in ubuntu and
> linux in general.
> 
>     *hile*
Its good to see now that some vendors provide bios updates which can be ran from Linux, although some of them do need a 
little kludging to work on a Debian based system
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