Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to write to.
On Tuesday September 12 2006 22:52, Grant wrote: > > > How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging > > > up floppy drives? > > > > > > - Grant > > > > no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all the bios stuff > > onto it, boot from a freedos cd and flash the bios/firmware. > > > > If I touch a floppy drive, it dies. And flashing with a freedos cd works > > very well. > > Would it work to burn a bootable CD with the BIOS files on it and > flash that way? > > If anyone could get me specific information on this I'd really > appreciate it. My motherboard needs the latest BIOS to run my new > Tualatin Celeron processor, and I know if I screw up the BIOS I screw > up the system. > > - Grant -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
