Re: flashing a rom

[Steve Scherbinski <sski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only problem is that most programs that flash the bios are specific
to the motherboard (I believe).  I haven't heard of one for Linux,
though they could be written.  Pretty much any of the floppy distros can
be used for an emergency boot disk, as well as the Linuxcare cd and the
first Suse cd is also bootable.  Of course the caveat of using one of
the small distros is that you have to know what your doing....

Steve


Wesley Leonard wrote:
> 
> I just realized that if I ever want to flash my bios eprom that I need a
> DOS boot disk...
> 
> Is there a linux program that can flash bios eproms?
> 
> I haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure it's easy to put together a handy
> linux floppy to replace my standard DOS floppy (used for
> installs/rescues, etc, has FDISK, FORMAT, EDIT, MSCDEX, and all other
> necessities...).
> 
> I've tried a couple of the Linux-on-a-floppy distros but never played
> that much...
> 
> food for thought...
> 
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> Wesley Leonard
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> 
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