mini 9 bios update issue (version A02)

[Iacopo Masi]

By now, I tried in a lot of way but I did succed to do that. Let me
know if you have some positive news.

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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got a Dell mini 9 that I want to update the bios on. The machine
> shipped with linux of course :)
>
> I'm wondering how bios updates should be done on the mini 9. The bios
> package (now at version A02) appears to be a windows-gui only update
> and won't run under freedos.
>
> The instructions on the download page for the bios update indicate that
> the procedure attempted above actually should work, however it doe not.
>
> I've gone so far to run the bios update program under wine and snag the
> decompressed files including the bios.rom file while the update was
> figuring out that it can't succeed under wine. Is there a way to take
> the rom file and use it with firmware tools to perform the update?
>
> Any ideas? Is there a more appropriate list for this question?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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