Am Sonntag, 12. August 2001 12:57 schrieb Bernd Brodesser:
* Marcel Meyer schrieb am 11.Aug.2001:
Die meisten Flash-Programme für Biose sind ja für DOS. Soll ich jetzt DOS emulieren oder lieber mit einer Win9x Startdisk starten und so das Bios auf den aktuellsten Stand bringen?
Starte einfach mit der Win9x-CD und wähle "Computer mit/ohne CD-ROM Unterstuezung starten". Dann kannst Du Dein Flashutility ausfuehren. Ein BIOS-Upgrade bei laufendem Linux ist eher nicht das Gelbe vom Ei... *g*
Und was macht man, wenn man keine Wind9x-CD hat? Eine kaufen um das BIOS upzugraden?
Bernd
Ich habe mal in meinem Mail Archiv gegraben... Es ging mal folgende Mail durch die Linux Kernel Mailing List: <Zitat> Dear hackers, weren't you ever frustrated about the fact that updating your hardware's flash firmware needs proprietary closed source software installed? There's a solution to this problem: a kernel driver for different kinds of (Flash)BIOSs that are available in today's x86 or Alpha AXP hardware. It's /dev/bios - and the latest version 0.3.1 was released recently. There are well known BIOSs for * System BIOS (resides at 0xe0000) * graphics hardware (e.g. VGA-adapters at 0xc0000) * SCSI host adapters * networking interfaces with 'BOOT ROM' * ... While in former times these BIOSs were implemented by using ROM or EPROM (both can't be updated without opening your computer) today's PC hardware is normally delivered with so called FLASH ROMs. These can simply be updated by software. This driver has the approach to make Linux read and write flash roms. What's new in 0.3.1? * compiles and works with Linux kernel 2.4 * rewrote flash chip probing * always use ioremap now * flash chips above 128k should work transparent * Support for newer VIA chipsets Devbios can be downloaded from http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/bios/ Please be sure to READ the README ;-) As long as you load the module without special parameters, it's in readonly mode and can't mess up your system, so please don't hesitate to try it out and mail me any test results Best regards, Stefan Reinauer, <stepan@suse.de> -- OpenBIOS - free your system. - </Zitat> Klingt dich interessant, oder? Gruss, Robert