[LinuxBIOS] flashrom for BIOS upgrade on MSI motherboard

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Sun Aug 26 13:58:59 CEST 2007


On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:43:55PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
> I need to upgrade the Award BIOS on an MSI motherboard. Rather
> than following MSI's procedure (boot on Windows system floppy and
> run AWFL####.EXE), I'm thinking of booting on a Linux CD and using
> flashrom.

Just an additional hint: forget about the CDROM, you don't need it.
Just boot Linux and run flashrom while the system is running, there's
no need for bootable CDROMs and such.


Uwe.
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