[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash

ME dugan at passwall.com
Wed Jul 9 19:46:01 PDT 2003


BIOS Flash methods are almost always based on images files or
image-to-disk applications that write an image to a floppy disk. That
floppy disk is then used to boot the machine and upgrade the flash BIOS.
Most of the apps from vendors of hardware are 32bit executable windows/dos
program that write out the image to the disk.

So, you may be able to get this functionality with DOSEMU (Never tried)
but with upgrading flash BIOS, I do not take chances. You can try using a
trsuted computer that has windows and use that machine to create the boot
floppy, then boot your laptop from that boot floppy.

Is this what you were after?

-ME


jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org said:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an old HP Vectra P2 that I'm having trouble with. Basically, I can
> install an OS, but I can't boot it after the install. I get "L", and
> that's it.
> I'm pretty sure that's an "L" as in Lilo. Anyway, I've installed a very
> bare
> bones RH9.0 on it.
>
> I was talking with a sys admin at work and he said he'd run across an
> issue
> simila r to this and he upgraded the BIOS and that took care of it. I went
> to HP
> land and found the upgrade, an exe for Windows NT.
>
> My question is, is there any way I can upgrade the BIOS without installing
> Windows? Is there a comparable BIOS upgrade program written for Linux? I
> really
> don't know much about this, but I don't know what else to do but install
> windows, upgrade the bios, and then reinstall redhat? But that doesn't
> seem right...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
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