[LinuxBIOS] Extraction of vga bios from .BIN file?

[Eric Poulsen]

I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should 
solve my VGA issues.  Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS 
within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this?

Bios file:
http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin

[Richard Smith]

On 4/24/06, Eric Poulsen  wrote:
> I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should
> solve my VGA issues.  Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS
> within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this?
>
> Bios file:
> http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin

A lot of times the factory bios stuff is compressed.

You will probally have to boot under factory and use dd to extract. 
Somewhere there were some tools for various mfgs that would extract
the image.  Check the archives.  If you find one for via then we
should list them on the wiki.

[Christian Sühs]

Eric Poulsen schrieb:
> I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should 
> solve my VGA issues.  Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS 
> within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this?
>
> Bios file:
> http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin

There are a lot of tools to do this.
search for "awardeco" for linux
or awardedit, cbrom, ie for DOS, Windoof