Upload to generic

[Carl Peto]

I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience.

I would like to upgrade my test PC to LinuxBIOS but do not want to replace
the existing motherboard.

Is it possible to "flash" LinuxBIOS into a standard motherboard, like mine.
I have an ASUS motherboard K7A or something like that.

Also if I do this and it goes wrong, can I undo it or do I have to go to the
manufacturer and pretend that I don't know how it broke? :)

Thanks,
Carl Peto

[Hendricks David W.]

Yes, that is possible. However, Asus sometimes does some weird stuff with 
their SMbus, so it might not be possible to make a port for your 
mainboard without some documentation from Asus.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Peto wrote:
> I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience.
>
> I would like to upgrade my test PC to LinuxBIOS but do not want to replace
> the existing motherboard.
>
> Is it possible to "flash" LinuxBIOS into a standard motherboard, like mine.
> I have an ASUS motherboard K7A or something like that.
>
> Also if I do this and it goes wrong, can I undo it or do I have to go to the
> manufacturer and pretend that I don't know how it broke? :)
>
> Thanks,
> Carl Peto
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[Carl Peto]

Thank you.  Is there a FAQ or HOWTO for how to flash like this or is it just
straightforward and easily picked up from the LinuxBIOS documentation?

Also I think I'd better have some option to get the old BIOS back,
especially if I'm going to ask ASUS how to do all this - otherwise their
likely answer will be "if you do this you break your board and we will not
fix it for you - you'll need to get a new one".

I don't know if there's some standard way to get a PC to "revert to factory
BIOS" with a key combination on bootup or something?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hendricks David W." 
To: "Carl Peto" 
Cc: "LinuxBIOS" 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Upload to generic
> Yes, that is possible. However, Asus sometimes does some weird stuff with
> their SMbus, so it might not be possible to make a port for your
> mainboard without some documentation from Asus.
>
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Peto wrote:
> > I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience.
> >
> > I would like to upgrade my test PC to LinuxBIOS but do not want to

replace
> > the existing motherboard.
> >
> > Is it possible to "flash" LinuxBIOS into a standard motherboard, like

mine.
> > I have an ASUS motherboard K7A or something like that.
> >
> > Also if I do this and it goes wrong, can I undo it or do I have to go to

the
> > manufacturer and pretend that I don't know how it broke? :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl Peto
> >
> > Linuxbios mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios