Bios upgrade

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28 Jan 2011 05:04 #6853 by Zig
Bios upgrade was created by Zig
May be a wrong place to post this question but here goes...

How to upgrade bios on my linux machine.

Runing Jetway 7F2WE2G motherboard.

No floppy.

USB stick, CD drive and SSHD of 32 Gig available.

Jetway provide DOS based utility to upgrade bios.

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28 Jan 2011 09:10 #6854 by Rick G
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I wonder if you could run the DOS setup program with WINE?

Rick G

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28 Jan 2011 09:16 #6855 by Zig
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DOSEMU would seem a more likely candidate ( to help stuff up the mother board).:(

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28 Jan 2011 09:51 #6856 by andypugh
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See if you can create a bootable DOS USB stick using the instructions here:
www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Specifically, the HP utility.

I recently used that to boot my Linux machine into DOS to reflash a servo drive.

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31 Jan 2011 14:47 #6901 by dab77
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i remember i did this way and worked.

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01 Feb 2011 15:07 #6933 by andypugh
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I just remembered that there is a utility to create a bootable USB stick in Ubuntu 10.04.It might be possible to use that to create a bootable DOS image.

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01 Feb 2011 20:31 - 01 Feb 2011 20:32 #6939 by Zig
Replied by Zig on topic Re:Bios upgrade
Ihave an old K6/2 based machine which runs win98.
Keep it alive because it runs both PCI and ISA buss slots.
Used it to make a boot floopy and then canibalised it for a floppy drive etc.... you get the picture.

Bios is updated, latency runing three instances of glgear on the jetway board with a 2 GHz C7 processor is under 10000 ( 96642 to be precise).

Thanks forYour inputs

P.S. K6/2 is reconstituted.

EDIT I did create a bootable USB stick and tried variousboot options in bios to no avail. :(
Last edit: 01 Feb 2011 20:32 by Zig.

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