P. Gueckel wrote: > 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. Correction! That last quote was from Chris Murphy. I've seen people manage to quote 2 people in one post, but I've never figured out how to do it, so I did it manually. Sorry for the mistaken credit :-( -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
