On 04/26/2012 10:47 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so.
There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done.
However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file.
I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP.
The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)? I'm a little confused, here. I've only upgraded a BIOS a couple of times in the last 15 years or so, but I seem to remember that you have to do it from a self-booting disk -- a floppy, back then-- not from an operating OS. Normally, I would have thought, that you don't have access to the BIOS from a running system. Has this changed? Look carefully at the software you have, and see if it doesn't require you to make some sort of bootable medium to run it from, and if so, there's a reasonable chance you could do that from Linux. (rawrite, anybody?) If not, then make the disk on someone else's computer, who's running Windows.
Or am I just out of sync with the modern world? --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org