On 9/26/2025 11:53 PM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2025-09-26 at 11:39 -0600, home user via users wrote:
What is the best time to check and (if appropriate) update BIOS:
* before doing the bare-metal installation; or
* after doing the bare-metal installation?
Better to have the motherboard doing what it does before an install.
If a BIOS/UEFI firmware update changes any features, you'd want that
done first. You'd like your kernel and its configuration to match your
system.
On 9/27/2025 11:33 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-09-27 at 15:54 -0600, home user via users wrote:
>> I found an old stick with a back-up of the old desktop's
>> motherboard's BIOS. The file explorer's properties thing shows it's
>> FAT32, exactly what I wanted. It also has more than enough free
>> space.
>
> NB: Some manufacturers insist that only one file is on a USB stick
> when you're going to update their firmware.
>
> Whether that's simply to avoid mistakes, or is a real requirement, we
> do not know.
>
I used the disk utility GUI on my old F-42 desktop to completely zero an
already used stick whose contents were no longer of use to me.
Then I formatted it to FAT32.
I did have problems, but I believe I got the new desktop's BIOS updated.
Thank-you, Tim.
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