Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[Brett Ussher]

Ah, I thought biosdisk reached into the .exe and extracted the update.  
My bad.

Brett D. Ussher



Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:30:38PM -0500, 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.
>>     
>
> Right, biosdisk itself will work fine.  It'll create a DOS-based
> ramdisk containing the .exe, and config grub to boot into it.  So far
> so good.  But when it comes to actually executing the .exe inside the
> DOS environment, you'll get the dreaded:
>
>   This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
>
> message, and no update will happen.
>
> At least I'm pretty sure that's what will happen, based on trying to
> run it under Windows on another system type.  Pretty GUI and all, only
> a good bit into it does it figure out it's the wrong system type and
> prompt you with "are you sure you really want to do this?".
>
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