Re: is there a way to flash a BIOS without using Windows?

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Jef Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:27, Elton Woo wrote:
>
>
> > Understood. Anyhow, I *briefly* installed Windows98 and flashed my
> > BIOSes: CDRW, and DVD drive. ... just long enough to have
> > Windows lockup on me several times and REMIND me why I HATE
> > Windows and *destest* the company that made it.
>
> You really want to be crazy....
>
> http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/development/devbios.html
>
> I WOULD STRONGLY NOT RECOMMEND THIS....but its fun nonetheless
>
> -jef"i'd tell you I got it to work...once...but that might be considered
> as encouraging to play with it, which would be very bad of me..so i
> won't tell you i got it to work"spaleta
Thanks for the link. I am having some trouble with some boards that were 
flashed with the incorrect version of BIOS (Award) and it won't take the 
correct version through the flash program for DOS. I doubt that I'd use 
it to correct the problem. I'll send them back to the manufacturer 
instead. It is tempting though.

Is there any versions of BIOS, that are specific to better Linux 
operation? I have an old laptop - Toshiba 490CDT that is a wreck with 
the latest version, that corrected a display problem for win2k. It has 
problems shutting down from X.

Jim

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