I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to
update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The
root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too
large for the available 1.44MB DOS boot disks. Apparently FreeDOS had
a LiveCD available
flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it
already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use
flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in
there so it can see your chip(s).
The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you might have
Hi,
did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade
Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).
Markus
Grant schrieb:
> I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to
> update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 a
> flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it
> already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use
> flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in
> there so it can see your chip(s).
>
> The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you
> did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade
>
> Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).
>
> Markus
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to *not* come to the list *first*. I
did get it working with unetbootin as mentioned in
> Hi,
>
> did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade
>
> Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).
>
> Markus
Now that I look more closely at that page, I've got to cast a vote for
going the unetbootin way. It's really e
Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant:
> I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to
> update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The
> root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too
> large for the available 1.44MB
On 16 April 2012 11:48, Markus Kaindl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade
>
> Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).
>
> Markus
>
Please link people to the maintained version of the wiki, not t
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