On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 23:57 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as the > >> magic key on the bottom of the screen as it completes the P.O.S.T. procedure) > >> to get into the motherboards bios. At least the del key is the trigger for > >> the bios on my motherboard. This will take you into the bios configuration > >> for your motherboard. On my box, right arrow to highlight the next to last > >> entry & hit enter. There should be an option to self-update the bios there. > >> > > Well here is the scoop. On all Dell machines you get into thee BIOS page > > by hitting F2. And indeed the next to last entry in POST. But there is > > no option in POST to change the BIOS. A simple method to change the BIOS > > on a Dell machine was described in a previous post using the Dell repo. > > Once that is installed it takes about 1 minute to change the BIOS > > without rebooting the machine. Of course you have to reboot the machine > > to use the new BIOS. I went from BIOS A03 to A11, but the bad news is I > > still can't turn on hyper-threading which was the point of the whole > > excelsior. What a bummer. > Yes the DELL bios repository for linux is clearly not up to date. > The HDR file can in theory be extracted from the exe file. > In linux, the firmwaretool has an option to extract the hdr... > Unfortunately, this does not work for me (x86_64), but you may have more > luck. > Looking at the sources, it looks like ome way would be to use dosemu on > the exe file. > > Hope this is of some help. > > Theo. > I had forgottewn about dosemu. TThat was a goood tip. But in my case the dell repo was up to date as checked on the dell support site. -- ======================================================================= I was making donuts and now I'm on a bus! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
