On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: > > > > http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- > > linux/ > > I'm not sure I understand the term "recovery" in this context. > My understanding was that if you trashed your BIOS, > fixing it involved a soldering iron. > The fix would not involve a CD because you couldn't use a CD drive.
"recovery CD" here just means "bootable disk with some sort of minimal OS on it that isn't the OS installed on the system" - don't get hung up on the word recovery. Recovery or rescue disk is a common name for these things; it's just that in this case the purpose is to have some specialised tools for firmware updates plus a firmware update file of some kind rather than for rescuing or recovering a problem with the installed OS. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines