update_firmware: "dellBiosUpdate: error: no such option: -f"

[Scott Marlowe]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, James Hogan <james at albanarts.com> wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2009 16:50:30 pj wrote:
>> Sadly in a corporate environment, asking an end user to handle the
>> biosdisk bootloader change is a little foreign to them. We would really
>> need to be able to use the update_firmware to make this transparent to
>> our user base. I *AM* very happy to have the work around, but the VP's
>> will be saying, "I don't have to do this with Windows...".
>
> I agree the update_firmware method seems more transparent when set up, but tbh
> when setting it up myself on Fedora 9 I found biosdisk to be more
> straightforward. Perhaps it's worth mentioning biosdisk on the
> troubleshooting page on the wiki (which is where i looked first) for those
> who for whatever reason can't get update_firmware working. I only found
> biosdisk after specifically searching for "bios linux" on ideastorm and
> seeing a link on a comment.

I'll add another vote for biosdisk.  It's very easy to use.