Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[Brett Ussher]

 Biosdisk would do the trick.

Brett D. Ussher



pj wrote:
> On 05/20/2009 11:56 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:29PM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote:
>>     
>>>      The Windows executable BIOS format for this system is not one that
>>>      firmware-tools knows how to extract and turn into a deb or rpm. **So
>>>      there is no BIOS update posted for this in the [1]linux.dell.com
>>>      repositories.
>>>
>>>      Unfortunately, this system's BIOS is only posted as a Windows
>>>      executable.
>>>       
> ...
>
>
> Does Dell's BIOSDisk help at all in this case?:
> http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk
>
> I used it during a time when the D630 did not have a working BIOS update
> through the fireware-tools.
>
> PJ
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