On Monday 05 December 2005 7:35 pm, JT Moree wrote: > Jim Webb wrote: > > Thanks JT, > > I have booted the LinuxRescueCD and can boot FreeDos, but the update > > file that I got from HP (sp31533.exe) cannot be run in DOS mode. > > > > Is there another place that I can get the BIOS update? > > oh wait. i may be thinking of the desktop amd64 machine. it does not > have windows so I use freedos. but for this laptop I might have used > windows. I left it a few gigs and keep it around for such things.
I can confirm this. I updated the BIOS on my R3000 a couple months ago and was forced to load Win XP back on the machine to run the update. I can't find it in my notes, but if I recall correctly I tried booting freeDOS first, then a Win98 boot CD I had, but HP's BIOS upgrade demanded Win XP. At the time I made a determined effort to work around it b/c all the Micros#!t software had been oblitterated from the machine, but eventually gave up and loaded XP back on the machine to do the update. I was wiping the drive and doing a complete re-install anyway. After the BIOS upgrade I wiped the drive again and haven't missed XP. I doubt there will be another BIOS upgrade for this machine anyway (at least not for me). -- John C. Martin - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin * Please be aware that non-encrypted e-mail is NOT a secured communication * vehicle, and that others may in certain circumstances be able to view its * contents. You should encrypt your e-mail. Disclaimers in your e-mail * signature about confidentiality and designated recipients are silly and * useless. That is what public key encryption is for. * Use my gpg key to ensure privacy - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin/John.gpg
pgp71asXgIWG9.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
