On 2011.12.08 16:36, Delyan Zhekov wrote:
I also found a tool converting .hdr to .bin
What tool did you use?
I remember looking for something like that some time ago, when I had to flash a GX BIOS from an HDR, but I wasn't able to locate one then.
In the end, I had to fallback to using dellBiosUpdate, from smbios-utils on Linux, instead of flashrom :(
but the .bin file is more than 5MB in size. I am totally lost. Could you give me a direction what file should I use with the flash programmer. Thank you.
I'm hoping someone else will be able to give directions on how to be able to use flashrom when provided with a Dell HDR file.
In case they don't, you should still be able to flash an HDR using Ubuntu (eg. from a live CD) by doing something like this:
o apt-get install smbios-utils firmware-addon-dell o retreive your HDR from network or USB o dellBiosUpdate --hdr <your_firmware.hdr>
NB: you may have to issue an apt-get-update first and tweak the settings so that the Ubuntu repositories you fetch from include "Universe".
Additional options for dellBiosUpdate are also provided here [1].
Again, if there's any possibility to use flashrom, you should go for it, as I remember the dellBiosUpdate seemed very dumb and didn't even provide any kind of progress indication.
Regards,
/Pete
[1] http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/dellBiosUpdate.html