There is an OpenBIOS project and some Beowulf clusters use linux as their
BIOS (the kernel is about 500K and some BIOS chips have 2Mb).
A great deal of progress is being reported in this unlikely spot
www.linux-hacker.net/iopener
It seems Netpliance came unglued when they learned their pre
Yes you can FLASHUPDATE your FlashROM, but; only for the original
manufacturer. It may be possible to go and purchase a new BIOS chip and
install it yourself but would not recommend doing same. There are
thingys that could destroy your system or just the new CMOS (BIOS) chip,
ESD (Electro Static
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> >From: "Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] OT--BIOS
> >Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:19:26 -0600
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> >
> >John wrote:
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Uh dude... I am not an idiot... I know upgrading the BIOS is
free. I can see that I did not make that clear in my post. But
lets face it, there are some manufacturors that have downright
lousy BIOS'. MRBIOS fills the ticket for those people that want
a more robust BIOS. Also nice when you hav
OK...lets get this straight...to flash the BIOS, you go to your motherboards
home page...look up the exact MODEL # you have, with the SAME BIOS mfg. ( in
some years due to supply problems, different BIOS mfg's were put on the same
model of mobo ) then get your BIOS from them...as far as I know alo
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>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] OT--BIOS
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:19:26 -0600
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>John wrote:
> > The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip.
> > Without it Intel s
"Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support" wrote:
> Disclaimer: i was pretty much joking about the BIOS thing. I actually
> really like my BIOS (ambios). A friend of mine has a really cruddy BIOS,
> but the computer is a machine is a Hewlett Packard, so it is a cruddy system
> in general.
>
> I
John wrote:
> The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip.
> Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up
> program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one of
a
> pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and
