Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[Brett Ussher]

Actually, the command I should have run was:

sudo biosdisk install --name=A12 ./Desktop/V1710A12.exe

which creates a grub menu item for "A12".  No matter, the command in the last post also works, it just doesn't set the name to A12 opting to use the name of the image file instead.

Brett D. Ussher



Brett Ussher wrote:
> I don't have a Vostros 1710, but I do have biosdisk.  I just used the 
> latest .exe file from the Dell website (V1710A12.exe) and used the 
> following command:
>
> sudo biosdisk install --name A12 ./Desktop/V1710A12.exe
>
> I was in my home folder in the command prompt and the file was stored on 
> my Desktop at the time.  It worked.  I now have a new entry in my grub 
> menu for a "V1710A12.img".  I don't dare run it, of course, since I 
> don't use that machine, but it would seem to work.
>
> Brett D. Ussher
>
>
>
> Matt Domsch wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:35:38PM +0100, Benoni Hamilton wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> So, is there anywhere we can get some sort of compatability list from then?
>>>     
>>>       
>> We do keep a list of systems we know firmware-tools doesn't work on.
>> But by "we", I mean the Linux Engineering team, not everyone at Dell.
>> Being a fairly large company with many products, many of which are not
>> sold with Linux, we tend to find out about problems only after people
>> have bought a system, installed Linux on it, and then find us. :-)
>>
>> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware/Systems_Missing_RBU
>>
>> is the list as I know it right now.  I added the Vostro 1710 based on
>> this discussion.
>>
>> As for the question of using 'biosdisk', I wish that were possible.
>> But it appears that the Vostro 1710 BIOS updater expects to be running
>> in a Windows environment, and does not work in a DOS environment.
>>
>>   
>>     
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