Felix Miata wrote: > There probably isn't a motherboard in existence with a BIOS that old that > does not require a genuine DOS boot to update its BIOS. That should be no > impediment to any Linux user, as DOS boot media to facilitate flashing are > readily available. e.g. from http://www.bootdisk.com/ I've checked out that site before, but it's been a while. I just wasn't sure whether I wanted to risk an open source BIOS, or do they have loaders for the original BIOS updates from the manufacturers? I'd like to give it a try some time... but first I have to get this TPM solved ;-) > Mike Chambers wrote: > It's increasingly possible with fwupdate but it requires manufacturer > support for it, pretty sure. Anyway, most manufacturers have a FreeDOS > based image that can be used to flash the BIOS. If you have to have > Windows to do this, probably forget it because that means starting > over - that installer will obliterate the drive contents. > But before worrying about the firmware, find out whether you have the > latest version or not and include that information in the bug report. > And check the changelogs. If none of the versions since what you have > fix anything related to TPM then it may not even be relevant. I'd noticed fwupdate in the repo, but I think there were some warnings, so I thought I better leave well enough alone. One day, I would like to give it a try, since I don't want to be forced into the Windows environment to perform basic system maintenance. Thanks for the ideas. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
