Peter composed on 2014-12-24 21:10 (UTC+0100):
Just replaced the motherboard in my Dell Latitude D630 laptop but it comes with an older version of the BIOS installed (A15), and it's apparently quite critical that I have at least A16 (my old motherboard had A17). Of course Dell only supply a Windows/DOS update utility.
I found this page detailing how to make it work with FreeDOS: http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-...
But it seems either out of date or not relevant to openSUSE since I cannot get 'loop' to show in /proc/filesystems, even after installing a couple of dependencies I thought may be related. So instead of creating a file FDOEM.144 with my BIOS update patched into it I just get a directory /tmp/floppy created and nothing else.
Anybody know how to adapt this to work under openSUSE 13.2?
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