Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:36:46 +0300 li...@wrant.com > Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:09:46 -0400 Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> > > > Upgrading sqlports-compact keeps your pkg_mgr aware of current ports. > > > > > >> So, I guess I should look at BiosDisk too. > > > > > > If one utility warns you could potentially have unpredictable flashing > > > results, how is the other utility that does not warn you so different? > > > > > > Tech support may not be engineering support, which you could then need. > > > Simply just use the manufacturer tools and not blame third party tools. > > > > Because of the dozens of different machines on which this runs I'm not > > sure that mine is one that has the problem. I'd like to actually see > > the warning before I decide not to use it. Biosdisk is about 6 years > > old so I decided to not go that route. Of course the machine is about > > 10 years old and so is the BIOS image. > > > > The manufacturer tools rely on Windows Vista which I don't have or > > want. If they had a more typical floppy image file I'd use it. I > > suspect it might run under XP but I don't have a way to put XP on the > > machine, since it's booting from CD/DVD I'm trying to fix. Although I > > do have a hard drive with XP on it from another machine which blue > > screens on this one, maybe I can bring it up in safe mode or > > something. Especially if it doesn't need GUI. > > I think you're quite competent to continue but have in mind the gotchas. > From past experience I recall the command prompt stopped being truly DOS > compatible around win98, yet XP could be used to create a DOS compatible > boot disk, that would also be able to run award flashing tools. The HP > proprietary stuff however may be another very different piece of... you > know what, so the risks that flashboot warns about may actually be Real.
I meant flashrom, not flashboot (different topic). Back in the days there were also uniflash (abandoned) and some other (universal) flash utilities. >From quick searches online HP seem to have some support resources, which is your best bet, including the live (preboot environment) for WinXP (offlist).
