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- Blazeix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Just FYI, In linux to check your bios version you can use this command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version - suppressingfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Laptops (for example) get BIOS updates that improve battery life and fix incompatibilities. Or the new BIOS will support higher speed RAM or a higher speed processor that you might want to buy. Or it will fix a motherboard compatibility with the high end nvidia card better. Or ...
- pashdown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Impressive. Most impressive. Gates has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy Linux.
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21quake3, 4, doom 3, Return to castle Wolfenstein, enemy territory, serious sam/2, darwinia, uplink, UT/2003/4, myth 2, sim city 3000, MoH:AA, neverwinter nights.
These are all official ports.
I'm not saying it is a lot, because it isn't. But it also isn't none.
there are also a lot of free games, and a lot of games work in wine. - matthewguiddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This isn't about LinuxBIOS, it's about updating a motherboard bios when you don't own a floppy drive and don't run DOS/Windows.
I just have a grub entry to boot a FreeDOS floppy image. - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15ASUS gives you an "on BIOS" flasher. You can even use a USB drive to hold your BIOS image.
I don't have a floppy.
I don't have Windows or DOS.
I upgrade through the BIOS. The way it should be done.
Stop buying the ECS/PC-CHIPS on special mobos from Fry's. - thecubic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24...no DOS...
Step 1: Download DOS
/speechless - ts8lemonade, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Step 1: Download FreeDOS boot disk floppy image
- 16777216, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Oooh...
You can count to three!
What a Smart boy!
Now I suppose you want a cookie. - Cimlite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10There are many flavors of Linux, some are as you describe and some are pretty much as easy as Windows (granted, different but easy once you get past that).
Besides, there's no one holding a loaded gun to your pet bunny screaming that "You must use Linux or Fluffy gets it!". If you really don't like it, then use Windows... or Mac (yuck). At least try it before saying that everyone recommending it is "*****" though. - slackprad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Thanks for that. I keep learning new things everyday :)
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That's also the biggest problem with Windows. Installshield, msiexec, and a bazillion other installer methods. Everything I need is an "apt-get" away.
- NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I prefer to use a floodlight to flash my BIOS
- fanboydcs, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14thecubic, that was exactly what I was thinking..
- catnap4321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It would be nice if motherboard manufacturers just shipped iso's for bios flashing. Don't they know nobody uses floppy disks anymore?
- lengau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Or i you download the new BIOS firmware so that you can use your new piece of hardware which, once you've put the new firmware on your motherboard, works perfrectly under Linux.
:P! - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65 years of *nix use and I am still such a noob. But at the same time I know and can accomplish a lot on a *nix system.
Great tip... no one wants to reboot just to get the bios version! - lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here's a guide to flash bios without floppy OR cdrom, as matthewguiddy pointed out:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Boot_Floppydisk_Image_without_Floppy_using_GRUB - ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I put on my robe and wizard hat
- Sicarul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@heinousjay:
Since when is flashing your BIOS a simple operation? i wouldn't do it without thinking at least 10 times about it. - terog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well at least the HP doesn't have a DOS program to update BIOS anymore. It's a Windows program.
Does anybody know whether it is safe to run the BIOS updater in Wine? - UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow that is pretty awesome thanks!
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or a BIOS update for an opteron board that enables dual-core support.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12OMG ur so stoopid he ment update teh warez on it not lite it up lol dumbded
- Sicarul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well, it's showing you an open source alternative to DOS, so it's actually ok.
- pyite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I prefer to grab 2.88 megabyte images instead of 1.44 whenever possible. They are a little harder to find, but it makes it much easier to copy BIOS utilities.
I wonder what the largest floppy image can be, were those old Super Disks bootable?
Mark - UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am actually kind of disappointed, I thought this article was going to be about a utility that would let you flash it from within your distro, kinda of like @Bios for Gigabyte motherboards in Windows. Still kind of cool though, better then using a floppy.
- shanesemler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You could do all of that nonsense to get a DOS disk working or you could simply use this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
- Brigadier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Asus mobos with EZ-Flash don't need any bootable disc: http://www.latenightpc.com/blog/archives/2006/11/24/how-to-flashing-the-bios-on-my-asus-m2npv-vm-with-ez-flash/
Other BIOS manufacturers have something similar, don't they? - schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Intel mobo has EFI, but uses CSA to boot legacy OSes, I take it this won't update EFI?
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2./configure
make && make install
But I'll admit I do prefer apt and the way aptitude handles the dependencies. - natch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of people who think that "switching" to Firefox means that they will lose their ability to run IE. Hahaha, to think there are actually Linux geeks who also think this way.
- docsavatchniya, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1gawd, im such a utility procedure whore...
thanks for this...
peace... - tinapaal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Laptops (for example) get BIOS updates that improve battery life and fix incompatibilities. Or the new BIOS will support higher speed RAM or a higher speed processor that you might want to buy. Or it will fix a motherboard compatibility with the high end nvidia card better.
http://www.definiteinfo.com/software/contractor-scheduling-software.html - SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you sold/gave to charity your Windows copy when you switched to Linux then yes, you lost your ability to (legally) run Windows.
- pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not sure what the original article had to do with linux,
but if you want to flash BIOSes from linux have a look at:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/bios-flashing.html
That could be extended to support other BIOSes
with the uniflash source that I only noticed later to writing the previous info:
http://www.uniflash.org/ - xerosphere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thank you. thank you.
/me puts away dusty pile of floppy drives *so* glad to not have to put one in my brand new machine. - sheptard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Hah, ok so, why don't you just put your bootloader to good use, and use it to load the image, instead of burning ~1.44MB of data to a cd....
and what about those of us who have installed our machines via a PXE boot image and have no cdrom or floppy drive in it..
Anyway, Grub supports booting floppy images by default, not sure about you old timers who still use lilo ;) - trp642, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I encountered a similar problem and I found this site:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2195208 - spambrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AMI has a Linux flash utility. It's not available on their website but you can get it through the motherboard manufacturer.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I just take off my pants.
- paker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Linux need a standard way to install programs. That's it's biggest problem.
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3There's not enough room on this comment page to list all the games for windows.
Genius - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0wow 95 diggs and the site can't even handle the load
- pak314, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Careful... don't flash your "BIOS" in public!
- Goldkill, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2"How to", "flash", "motherboard, "BIOS" and of course, "Linux". Digg by numbers.
- Goldkill, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3"How to", "flash", "motherboard, "BIOS", "Linux" and of course the usual, default, anti-Windows crap. Digg by numbers. Was a computer responsable for this?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+5That is exactly right. Oh and those people who say I can play tux racer can shove it.
- JeffS, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4I'm thinking if you need to flash your BIOS to support some new hardware the chance of that hardware having Linux support is going to be rather slim.
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -23/+9I'm enjoying my old Windows OS. No trojans/viruses, no slowdown, no compiling simple common tools, no weird political ***** being implicitly supported... and I don't need to hope to god Digg will be around forever to tell me how to do simple operations like flash my BIOS.
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