notebook BIOS update without Windows?

[Alan E. Davis]

A recent thread on the Gentoo-user mailing list got into this issue.
I cannot claim to understand it all, but several ways were mentioned
using bootable iso images available on line.

Perhaps you can find that list using google.  It was only a few days ago.

Alan Davis

On 10/10/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/9/06, Francisco Borges <f.borges at rug.nl> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a notebook (Dell Inspiron6400) with only Linux in it. I would
> > like to update the BIOS of it (according to Dell "update thermal
> > control").
> >
> > All files at Dell's website to update the BIOS are .EXE files.
> >
> > Is there way to update the BIOS without Windows?
>
> I think you answered yourself below :-)
>
> > A FreeDOS CDROM? Run the exe from Wine?
>
> You should boot from any FreeDOS or MS-DOS floppy, then run the BIOS updater.
> WIINE won't work, since it won't allow the executable to access the
> hardware directly.
>
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