Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time >> > > unless I run some program or other. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time > > > unless I run some program or other. > > > > So without a program to do flash updates (or at least som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> >>> i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. >>> >> I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. >> > > > becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time > > unless I run some program or other. > > So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code > somewhere that might not be in .exe or ELF format) how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:19:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. > > > > > > because without them we couldn't flash stuff? > > > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. > > > because without them we couldn't flash stuff? > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. -- Neil Bothwick te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. because without them we couldn't flash stuff? -- alan dot mcki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. -- Neil Bothwick If man ruled the world: Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion. signature.asc Description: PGP signat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 12:53:23 schrieb Xi Shen: > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. Who says we don't? Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: >> >> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried run