list of systems not working with dellBiosUpdate

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 17.08.2007 21:55, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote:
> Michael E Brown a écrit :
>> Note that there can be three reasons to cause a system to not work:
> 
> reasons which are interresting to document in a better place than 
> list-archive, I think.
> 
>>   -- A system doesnt support RBU
> Which means that those systems might work in the future, if a poor soul 
> at Dell get some specs and motivation.
> 
>>   -- System supports RBU, but doesnt have BIOS in a format I can
>>   extract (Opti 740 probably falls here right now).
> 
> means that those systems could be supported soon, it needs the BIOS team 
> to provide the spec to exctract the hbr file or to provide the file 
> directly.
> 
>>   -- System supports RBU, but RBU is buggy and doesnt work. Many old
>>   systems fall under this. :(
> Dead end, unsupported systems. Nice to know.

You can try flashrom from LinuxBIOS on all of these machines. If the
flash chip is detected correctly, there is a good chance you also can
flash a new Dell BIOS version.
Simply install flashrom (instructions at http://linuxbios.org/Flashrom )
and run "flashrom -V". The output will usually give enough information
to add support for flashing your BIOS if it's not supported yet.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel