Comments on: BIOS flash upgrades on Linux http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147 Thoughts on running an Irish Linux business Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:32:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: smulcahy http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147&cpage=1#comment-229 smulcahy Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:05:43 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-229 Hi Daniel, It's great to see Dell doing the right thing in this regard. I see it's flagged as an <code>Update Package for Red Hat Linux</code>. How well does it work on other distributions? Good to see anyways, it's a definite improvement. -stephen Hi Daniel,

It’s great to see Dell doing the right thing in this regard. I see it’s flagged as an Update Package for Red Hat Linux. How well does it work on other distributions? Good to see anyways, it’s a definite improvement.

-stephen

]]> By: Daniel http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147&cpage=1#comment-228 Daniel Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:28:59 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-228 Seeing as you'd love to hear about a BIOS flash utility that runs under linux, look no further than the section on Dell's site for their PowerEdge servers. (http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/ and then select Servers -> PowerEdge -> any model number -> Linux OS -> BIOS. Adn you'll find .BIN files that are runnable directly on the command-line. They also have a tool for automating the creation of FreeDOS images for their desktops and laptops (http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk) Seeing as you’d love to hear about a BIOS flash utility that runs under linux, look no further than the section on Dell’s site for their PowerEdge servers. (http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/ and then select Servers -> PowerEdge -> any model number -> Linux OS -> BIOS. Adn you’ll find .BIN files that are runnable directly on the command-line. They also have a tool for automating the creation of FreeDOS images for their desktops and laptops (http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk)

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