On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:55:24 -0300, Sebastian <sebas0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a single boot FC14 system on a Dell precision M6500 precision > notebook and wish to update the BIOS. > > I go to the Dell download site, and for my machine select the closest match > to my operating system: RH Enterprise Linux 5. > This gives me the only option to download an EXE file: "M6500A06.EXE" You probably want to use bios disk. You can get source or rpms at: http://linux.dell.com/biosdisk/ There are instructions on how to use this tool for various ways of doing the flash at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DellBIOS One of the options allows you to choose flashing from the grub menu. You don't need Windows installed nor a floppy drive. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines