Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios
Le Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:13:11AM +0100, Neil Youngman écrivait/wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 21:09, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think my Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 does not work with my current Bios
> > Version. When I start Linux with lilo and the Option: acpi=off they
> > will run.
> > So I downloaded a newer Bios Version. It's a ROM file. I don't know
> > how to update the Bios under Linux. Can anybody help me. Or must I
> > install a M$ product?
For exactly this sole purpose (of flashing newer BIOSes) I installed a
FreeDOS on a DOS-FAT partition on my MSI S270 Turion laptop. The
uploaded BIOS file is a .zip containing the ROM file and a flashing
utility (AFUDOS in my case):
% ls -l 1013_370.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 basile basilegr 346867 Sep 28 11:14 1013_370.zip
% unzip 1013_370.zip
Archive: 1013_370.zip
creating: 1013_370/
creating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/
inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/A1013AMS.370
extracting: 1013_370/A1013AMS/A1013AMS.BAT
inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/AFUDOS.EXE
inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/RELEASE.TXT
Be sure to boot freedos without any drivers!
See also
http://freedos.org/
http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/msi_s270_linux.html
http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?root=198&SLanguage=en-us
I would guess that your A1AFLASH.EXE utility should be FreeDOS
bootable. You should try (at your own risk, as usual when flashing
BIOSes).
Regards
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